Haraway, Donna

Philosopher-Science Studies American Born 1944 (age 82)

Developed cyborg theory and situated knowledge epistemology.

368 quotes

"We must embrace our status as cyborgs and make the most of it."
Hope
"We are always already cyborgs, and that's not necessarily a bad thing."
Technology
"The world is made through material-semiotic practices."
Philosophy
"Situated knowledges are about responsibility and accountability."
Knowledge
"We need to think about what counts as nature in the first place."
Nature
"Organisms are not born; they are made through worldly encounters."
Science
"Kinship is a practice of care, not just a biological category."
Family
"Staying with the trouble means learning to live in the ruins."
Hope
"We are response-able creatures, always called to account."
Courage
"Nature is not a resource; it is a relation."
Nature
"Stories are powerful technologies for making worlds."
Imagination
"Ethical practice requires not knowing in advance what is right."
"The personal is not the individual; it is the collective."
Relationships
"Boundaries are not given; they are made and remade."
Change
"Partial perspectives can be more honest than claims to totality."
Truth
"We must learn to think across species and times."
Wisdom
"Technology and nature are co-produced, not separate."
Technology
"Writing is always a material practice with consequences."
Art
"Monsters are real, and they demand our attention."
Fear
"The future is not predetermined; it is something we craft together."
Dreams
"Responsibility cannot be outsourced or delegated away."
Justice
"Making kin is a practice, not a given."
Kindness
"We must learn to live in multispecies entanglement."
Nature
"Knowledge is always situated and partial."
Knowledge
"Feminist science studies is about better objectivity, not less."
Science
"The Anthropocene names our complicity and our responsibility."
Politics
"Sympoiesis describes worlds that make themselves together."
Creativity
"We are all products of hybrid encounters and mixtures."
History
"Objectivity is not distance; it is careful attention."
Truth
"Refusal is sometimes the most ethical response."
Courage