Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

Haraway, Donna

doi:10.4324/9780203873106

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“…Ideas of hybridity and networks are being utilised to more effectively understand interactions between culture and nature, or more specifically to dissolve the distinction between them. The most well-known recent elaboration of ideas of hybridity has been in the work of Haraway (1991), Latour (1993) and Whatmore (2002) and their attempts to break free of the binary categories of society and nature. A further influence on these debates in the past few decades has been the increasing political voice of indigenous peoples.…”

Section: Dualistic and Hybrid Approaches To Human-nature Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nature, culture and time: Contested landscapes among environmental managers in Skåne, southern Sweden

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Regnéll²

2012

Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes

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Section: Dualistic and Hybrid Approaches To Human-nature Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nature, culture and time: Contested landscapes among environmental managers in Skåne, southern Sweden

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Regnéll²

2012

Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes

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“…Feminist epistemology and social studies of sciences posit feminist theory as the missing link between science studies and epistemological political subjectivity, with intellectual pioneers like Donna Haraway (1990), Sandra Harding (1991Harding ( , 1993, Isabelle Stengers (1987Stengers ( , 2000, Lisa Cartwright (2001), Bryld and Lykke (1999) and Annemarie Mol (2002). The social studies of science also proved very innovative, as evidenced by the work of Fraser et al (2006), Maureen McNeil's shrewd political analyses of technology (2007) The field of media studies has produced an astonishing amount of high-quality research on science and technology, as testified by the work of Jonathan Crary (2001) and the Zone Books series, which brought French theory and philosophy of science to large American audiences.…”

Section: The Humanities In the Twenty-first Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

Posthuman Humanities

Braidotti

2013

European Educational Research Journal

117

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This article compares notes on different and new concepts of 'the Human', developed both within disciplinary and interdisciplinary academic scientific research and in broader social practices. The main focus is on the shifting relationship between the 'two cultures' of the humanities and science in the light of contemporary developments, such as the sophisticated forms of interdisciplinary research that have emerged in the fields of biotechnologies, neural sciences, environmental and climate change research and Information and Communication technologies. These rapid changes affect the very definitions of the human and of human evolution. This article attempts to assess the constructions of the human at work in contemporary Humanities scholarship, which I also describe as the posthuman condition. I will start on a critical note by outlining the dislocations of the discursive boundaries and categorical differences within the Humanities, which have been triggered respectively by the explosion of humanism and the implosion of anthropocentrism. I will argue that these epistemological breaks cause an internal fracture within the Humanities that cannot be mended just by good will. I will then go on in a more affirmative note to defend the argument that the Humanities can and will survive their present crises and even prosper, to the extent that they will show the ability and willingness to undergo a major process of transformation in the direction of the posthuman.I shall devote some time to outlining the posthuman predicament and propose a posthuman affirmative ethics. To be worthy of our times, we need to be pragmatic: we need schemes of thought and figurations that enable us to account in empowering terms for the changes and transformations currently on the way. We already live in permanent states of transition, hybridisation and nomadic mobility, in emancipated, post-feminist, multi-ethnic societies with high degrees of technological mediation which, however, have not ensured justice for all, or resolved enduring patterns of inequality. These are neither simple nor linear events, but rather are multilayered and internally contradictory social phenomena. They combine elements of ultra-modernity with splinters of neo-archaism: high-tech advances and neo-primitivism, which defy the logic of excluded middle. We therefore need great methodological creativity to cope with these challenges.Let me explore in order the different steps of this argument. Posthumanism

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“…Americans' need to adapt to a working environment of mechanized plasticity along with sophisticated consumption lifestyles is exemplified in Artzybasheff's anthropomorphic machine/bodies. As it was mentioned above, the industrial mechanization of American life was reflected into the interplay between consumption and cyborg culture, the intersection of human mind and intelligent machines (Gonzalez in Grey et al, 1995;Haraway, 1991;Simon, 1969). The structuring and embodiment of technology into the material and emotional life of the consumer is illustrated in Artzybasheff's anthropomorphic design.…”

Section: Promotion and Critique Of Technological Progressmentioning

confidence: 99%