Donna Haraway
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Donna Haraway (1944-) earned a Ph.D. in biology from Yale University and is a Professor of History of Consciousness and Women's Studies at the University of California in Santa Cruz, California, United States. She also teaches feminist theory and technoscience at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where she conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar.
She is the author of Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989) and Simians, Cyborgs, and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991). Many consider the latter to be the authoritative text on political theory in regards to posthumans, cyborgs and human-machine interaction.
The following table is taken from Simians, Cyborgs and Women and illustrates various facets of society, concrete and abstract, that Haraway believes will eventually change. The left column lists the old components of hierarchical dominance; the right column lists the alternatives that will be supplied by a network of equally-valued individuals.
| Representation | Simulation |
| Bourgeois novel, realism | Science fiction, postmodernism |
| Organism | Biotic component |
| Depth, integrity | Surface, boundary |
| Heat | Noise |
| Biology as clinical practice | Biology as inscription |
| Physiology | Communications engineering |
| Small group | Subsystem |
| Perfection | Optimization |
| Eugenics | Population control |
| Decadence, Magic Mountain | Obsolescence, Future Shock |
| Hygiene | Stress Management |
| Microbiology, tuberculosis | Immunology, AIDS |
| Organic division of labour | Ergonomics/cybernetics of labour |
| Functional specialization | Modular construction |
| Reproduction | Replication |
| Organic sex role specialization | Optimal genetic strategies |
| Biological determinism | Evolutionary inertia, constraints |
| Community ecology | Ecosystem |
| Racial chain of being | Neo-imperialism, United Nations humanism |
| Scientific management in home/factory | Global factory / electronic cottage |
| Home / market / factory | Women in the Integrated Circuit |
| Family wage | Comparable worth |
| Public / Private | Cyborg citizenship |
| Nature / Culture | Fields of difference |
| Co-operation | Communications enhancement |
| Freud | Lacan |
| Sex | Genetic engineering |
| Labour | Robotics |
| Mind | Artificial Intelligence |
| Second World War | Star Wars |
| White Capitalist Patriarchy | Informatics of Domination |
External links
- History of Consciousness Program Website (http://humwww.ucsc.edu/HistCon/faculty_haraway.htm)
- Donna Haraway Faculty Website European Graduate School (http://www.egs.edu/faculty/donnaharaway.html)
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