Donna J. Haraway Quotes

#1. Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

Donna J. Haraway

#2. Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

Donna J. Haraway

#3. Grammar is politics by other means.

Donna J. Haraway

#4. Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

Donna J. Haraway

#5. The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

Donna J. Haraway

#6. Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

Donna J. Haraway

#7. The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

Donna J. Haraway

#8. By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.

Donna J. Haraway

#9. The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.

Donna J. Haraway

#10. I'd rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess

Donna J. Haraway

#11. The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity.

Donna J. Haraway

#12. Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.

Donna J. Haraway

#13. It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves.

Donna J. Haraway

#14. I am making an argument for the cyborg as a fiction mapping our social and bodily reality and as an imaginative resource suggesting some very fruitful couplings. Michael Foucault's biopolitics is a flaccid premonition of cyborg politics, a very open field.

Donna J. Haraway

#15. A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.

Donna J. Haraway

#16. All readings are also mis-readings, re-readings, partial readings, imposed readings, and imagined readings of a text that is originally and finally never simply there. Just as the world is originally fallen apart, the text is always already enmeshed in contending practices and hopes.

Donna J. Haraway

#17. Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?

Donna J. Haraway

#18. Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.

Donna J. Haraway

#19. 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.

Donna J. Haraway

#20. From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.

Donna J. Haraway