Donna Haraway

Donna Haraway in 2006

Donna Haraway (born 6 September 1944) is a cultural theorist, currently a professor and chair of the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States.

Quotes

• Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.
  
  • "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp.149-181.

• 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.
  • "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp.149-181.

• Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.
  
  • "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp.149-181.

• All of reality in late capitalist culture lusts to become an image for its own security.
  • "Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936" in Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory (1994), p. 72

External links

• History of Consciousness Program Website
• Donna Haraway Faculty Website European Graduate School
• 1997 Interview in Wired
• A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s. Socialist Review 15, no. 2 (1985).
• Cleaned up copy of Stanford hosted version, with typographical and formatting errors corrected.
• A discussion of cyborg feminism at the Purdue University website
• Video lectures