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Communications sciences and biology are constructions of natural-technical objects of knowledge in which the difference between machine and organism is thoroughly blurred; mind, body, and tool are on very intimate terms.
Donna Haraway
One is too few, but two are too many.
Donna Haraway
I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.
Donna Haraway
Gender is always a relationship, not a preformed category of beings or a possession that one can have. Gender does not pertain more to women than to men. Gender is the relation between variously constituted categories of men and women (and variously arrayed tropes), differentiated by nation, generation, class, lineage, color, and much else.
Donna Haraway
We're talking about whole new forms of subjectivity here. We're talking seriously mutated worlds that never existed on this planet before. And it's not just ideas. It's new flesh.
Donna Haraway
Think about the technology of sports footwear. … Before the Civil War, right and left feet weren't even differentiated in shoe manufacture. Now we have a shoe for every activity.
Donna Haraway
Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.
Donna Haraway
Human beings are always already immersed in the world, in producing what it means to be human in relationships with each other and with objects. … If you start talking to people about how they cook their dinner or what kind of language they use to describe trouble in a marriage, you're very likely to get notions of tape loops, communication breakdown, noise and signal — amazing stuff.
Donna Haraway
Imagine you're a rice plant. What do you want? You want to grow up and make babies before the insects who are your predators grow up and make babies to eat your tender shoots. So you divide your energy between growing as quickly as you can and producing toxins in your leaves to repel pests. Now let's say you're a researcher trying to wean the Californian farmer off pesticides. You're breeding rice plants that produce more alkaloid toxins in their leaves. If the pesticides are applied externally, they count as chemicals — and large amounts of them find their way into the bodies of illegal immigrants from Mexico who are hired to pick the crop. If they're inside the plant, they count as natural, but they may find their way into the bodies of the consumers who eat the rice.
Donna Haraway
Feminist concerns are inside of technology, not a rhetorical overlay. We're talking about cohabitation: between different sciences and forms of culture, between organisms and machines. I think the issues that really matter — who lives, who dies, and at what price — these political questions are embodied in technoculture. They can't be got at in any other way.
Donna Haraway
Primates are a way into thinking about the world as a whole.
Donna Haraway
I'm interested in creatures that inhabit borderlands. Dogs inhabit the borderland between the civilized and the wildness that lies just beyond. Dogs are about unfreedom. Dogs are degraded wolves. They're about the realization of man's will in nature.
Donna Haraway
I am not voting for Arnold, though I have watched his movies and though I am not immune to the beauty of his body. Still, his is a hard, machine-crafted body — he's not my type — though I do also work out. I see Arnold as super boy. He has never really grown-up.
Donna Haraway
I'm not a romantic about dogs. I know that dogs — and human beings — have done vile things throughout history. In the colonial era, the Spanish used dogs to hunt and kill Native Americans. Dogs were like lethal guided missiles. Today, I think that we have an obligation to learn from dogs. I think that we can become better human beings by paying attention to the relationships that we're in with dogs. Together we can not only survive, but flourish. We can learn to be present and to be real.
Donna Haraway
We do not live in a "dog eat dog world." We live in a world of nuisances and complexities, not cliches. I think we've turned dogs into metaphorical vehicles for our own stupidities.
Donna Haraway
In the fine arts there are so many strong passions about illustration versus art, about didacticism versus pure art.
Donna Haraway
[…] this metaphoric realism — or cyborg surrealism — is the excessive space of technoscience — a world whose grammar we may be inside of but where we may, and can, both embody and exceed its representations and blast its syntax.
Donna Haraway
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