Haraway, Donna

Philosopher-Science Studies American Born 1944 (age 82)

Developed cyborg theory and situated knowledge epistemology.

368 quotes

"We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs."
Technology
"I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess."
Technology
"The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion."
Science
"Nature is not hidden and does not need to be unveiled."
Nature
"Staying with the trouble means learning to be truly present, not as a vanishing point of history, but as mortal critters entwined in myriad unfinished configurations."
Philosophy
"Sympoiesis is a simple word; it means 'making-with'."
Creativity
"Cats are not the other to whom we are responsible."
Relationships
"It matters what matters we use to think other matters with."
Wisdom
"We need to think of the body as a computer, without falling into the trap of treating it as merely informational."
Science
"Situated knowledges are always partial, locatable, and critical."
Knowledge
"The apparatus of bodily production would include all of the political apparatus."
Politics
"Feminism is about making a better world for ourselves and our kin."
Justice
"Monsters are not born; they are made."
Philosophy
"We cannot live with or without cyborgs."
Technology
"Objectivity is about particular and specific embodied positions."
Truth
"Science is culture, not nature."
Science
"The world is not made of atoms; it is made of stories."
Literature
"Survival is an inadequate response to the world's troubles."
Wisdom
"Practical theology is about becoming worldly."
Faith
"We are responsible for our narratives."
Justice
"The need to be whole is a modern, and particularly masculine, symptom."
"Nature is not hidden and needs no unmasking."
Truth
"We must reckon with our technological inheritances."
Technology
"Kinship is not about blood; it is about power relations."
Relationships
"The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world."
Technology
"Thinking is a material practice."
Philosophy
"We are not separate from nature; we are nature."
Nature
"Responsibility requires accounting for what we do and make."
Justice
"Politics is not separate from science; it is embedded within it."
Politics
"Language is not transparent; it shapes reality."
Philosophy