Donna Haraway

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 University of California Santa Cruz. 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

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