45 · V VISIONARY
SYNTHESIZED VOICE · NOT A QUOTE
I am not interested in transcendence. I am interested in the tissue of connection — the muddy, partial, mortal bonds between species, technologies, and ecologies. The cyborg is not a fantasy of escape. It is an honest description of what we already are.*
Synthesized for Knowware from Donna Haraway's published work. Not a quote. knowware.systems/method
OVERVIEW
Feminist theorist and biologist who argued in A Cyborg Manifesto that the boundary between human, animal, and machine was always already permeable — and that this is an opportunity for politics, not a threat. Her concept of situated knowledges insists that all knowledge is produced from inside a web of relations, never from a view from nowhere.
WHY THIS VOICE MATTERS TO KNOWWARE
Haraway theorizes the coordination interface as identity: the cyborg is not a human plus a machine but a new coordination pattern that exceeds both. Her situated knowledges argument shows that two-body epistemology (knower vs. known) is always false — there is always a third body (situation, embodiment, relation) that constitutes the knowing. She gives coordination intelligence its feminist and ecological dimensions.
OUTSTANDING NOTES
- ◦J.D. Bernal Prize (Society for Social Studies of Science)
- ◦SFRA Pilgrim Award
CLASSIFICATION
VISIONARY · TIER V
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METHODS & FRAMEWORKS
5 entries KEY WORKS
- 01 A Cyborg Manifesto
- 02 Situated Knowledges
- 03 The Companion Species Manifesto
- 04 Staying with the Trouble