Haraway, Donna

Philosopher-Science Studies American Born 1944 (age 82)

Developed cyborg theory and situated knowledge epistemology.

368 quotes

"We are all stardust, and that material connection matters for how we understand ourselves."
Nature
"Science is not about discovering truth but about producing knowledge that matters."
Science
"The technocratic vision of nature as a machine to be conquered must be resisted."
Freedom
"Earthwide flourishing requires us to decolonize our thinking and our practices."
Justice
"Imagination is the capacity to envision futures otherwise than those imposed upon us."
Imagination
"We are response-able creatures in a responding world."
Strength
"The archive is not a neutral repository but a site of power and contestation."
History
"Becoming is not about progress but about learning to live in the confusion of our times."
Change
"To think multispecies is to refuse the anthropocentric conceit that only humans matter."
Wisdom
"Symbiosis, not individual autonomy, is the foundation of life."
Life
"We must learn to live with the ones we don't like in a shared world."
Peace
"The cyborg myth is about transgression and possibility, not purity or origins."
Creativity
"Power operates through networks of relation, not through hierarchical command."
Leadership
"Inheritance is not something we passively receive but something we actively reconstruct."
History
"Love, in the context of worldmaking, is a practice of attention and care."
Love
"The problem with humanism is that it assumes humans are separate from and superior to nature."
Philosophy
"We need to develop a tentacular rather than a unified vision of solidarity."
Relationships
"Education is about learning to live with difference, not erasing it."
Education
"The body is not a natural given but a historical contingency."
Philosophy
"We must take seriously the material and semiotic agency of nonhuman others."
Science
"The future is not something that happens to us but something we make together."
Dreams
"Feminist science studies reveals how power operates in the supposedly neutral domain of knowledge."
Politics
"Survival requires us to cultivate what I call 'string figures' or connections across difference."
Hope
"The Capitalocene names more accurately the geological epoch we inhabit than the Anthropocene."
Politics
"We are all implicated in the systems of oppression we seek to resist."
Justice
"The practice of speculative fabulation can help us imagine otherwise."
Imagination
"Biodiversity is not a natural resource to be exploited but a relation to be honored."
Nature
"We must learn to think and act at multiple scales simultaneously."
Wisdom
"The archive remembers what the present wishes to forget."
Truth
"Meaning is not something found in texts but something produced through reading practices."
Literature