Donna Haraway

Cyborg spaces and monstrous places: critical geographic engagements with Harawayan theory

by Emma Roe

Co-Authored with MW Wilson, M Hickey, J Craine, L Fawcett, A Oberhauser, T Warkentin Published in Aether. The Journal of Media Geography 8 (A), 42-67

Donna Haraway’s contribution to the theorization of feminist, post-structural and radical geographies has been... more Donna Haraway’s contribution to the theorization of feminist, post-structural and radical geographies has been immense, and critical scholars working across the spectrum have drawn on her work as part of larger projects rethinking the epistemological and ontological foundations of modern geography.
The purpose of this conversation, held at the 2010 aag meetings in Washington, D.C., was to bring together a diverse field of geographers who are currently engaging with Haraway's work. We hoped to foster this conference space in order to share research and to grapple with the possibilities and limitations of Harawayian thought as it has and continues to open
up new spaces across the discipline – both theoretically and practically. To that end, we welcomed panelists that engage with any aspect of Haraway's work, and encouraged participation from a wide variety of geographic sub-fields, including, but not limited to: anti-essentialist feminist research praxis, cyborg politics, relational ontologies, hybrid epistemologies, impure landscapes, god-trickery, inappropriate/d others, companion species,
and (non)human/techno-bio-nature-science relationships.

From Ethical Principles to Response-Able Practice

by Emma Roe

Co-authored with Beth Greenhough, Published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

A Modem of One's Own: The Subject of Cyberfeminism

by Jodey Castricano

rhizomes.04 spring 2002

Sampling Haraway, Hunting Björk: Locating A Cyborg Subjectivity

by Andrew Robbie

published in repercussions 10.1, Spring 2007

Cyborg Stem Cells in Public: Deconstructing and Taking Responsibility for Categorizations

by Nicola Marks

New Genetics and Society, (advanced online publication), due end 2012

“Cyborg” entities do not easily fit into pre-existing categories and can therefore be useful in deconstructing these... more “Cyborg” entities do not easily fit into pre-existing categories and can therefore be useful in deconstructing these categories and showing their contingency and political power. In this paper, some cyborg stem cells are examined. They were discussed in Australian public debates as well as during interviews with scientists. Multiple ways of making sense of them are possible, but one became dominant, was inscribed in Australian parliamentary documents and may now seem to be a simple reflection of nature. By showing other possible categorizations and highlighting the contingency and ambiguity of concepts such as “embryo”, or “fetus”, the established definition of these cells is contested. In particular, the way it can displace conversations about women’s bodies and the use in research of material from terminations is highlighted. Alternative stem cell categorizations are put forward; these are not “innocent” either, but may offer fruitful ways of talking about this area of technoscience in public.

"Companion Species under Fire: A Defense of Donna Haraway’s 'The Companion Species Manifesto.'"

by Chris Vanderwees

Vanderwees, Chris. "Companion Species under Fire: A Defense of Donna Haraway’s 'The Companion Species Manifesto.'" Nebula 6.2 (2009): 73-81.

Intersectional disgust? Animals and (eco) feminism

by Richard Twine

Arte femminista e nuove tecnologie: una prospettiva situata

by Federica Timeto

In "Culture della differenza. Femminismo, visualità e studi postcoloniali", a cura di Federica Timeto, Utet, Torino, 2008, pp. 158-73.

Diffracting the Rays of Technoscience

by Federica Timeto

published in "Poiesis and Praxis", Springer Verlag, 8, 2011, pp. 151-167.

Feminist Technotopias: the Relocation of Technology as Aesth/ethic Project

by Federica Timeto

paper delivered at the IX Consciousness Reframed Conference "New Realities. Being Syncretic", Vienna 2008

Technologies, space, time and sociality constitute a contingent and heterogeneous combination, which Rosanne Stone,... more Technologies, space, time and sociality constitute a contingent and heterogeneous combination, which Rosanne Stone, drawing on the notion of biosociality coined by Paul Rabinow, has called technosociality. As part of this complexity, it seems that aesthetic practices and theories in the field of (new) technologies today deal more than ever with “the fantasms of belonging” as well as “the tragedies of not belonging” (Rogoff), linking the production of identity to the production of space at various levels. Although utopianist and  dystopianist views tend to prevail, I believe that a critical technotopianism can help overcome these and other binaries and elaborate a situated aesth/etics from within technoscience.
It is for this reason that, in my paper, I adopt a “technofeminist” situated perspective, one which combines the technofeminist approach proposed by Judy Wajcman with  Haraway’s notion of situated knowledge, as it has been revisited through the recent encounters between postcolonial studies, transcultural feminism and visual culture.
Firstly, I focus on different concepts about space and place that emerge from a number of theories about new technologies, in order to highlight the way some of them appear to conceive a borderless, placeless and disembodied scenario of universal everythingness, everywhereness and anytimeness, to paraphrase Stephen Graham’s expression. I then compare these theories to different feminist perspectives about new technologies, particularly in relation to the issue of positionality. Finally, my stress on recent cyberfeminist stances is aimed at outlining the hypothesis of an aesth/ethics of technological positionality and technological embeddedness. This means grounding the theories about- and the practices within- new technologies  inside the flows and forces of globalscapes, to account for the contradictory effects of the multiplicity of belonging inside and throughout them. At the same time, this also means preserving an imaginative force based on a genealogical countermemory and the search for transformative figurations (Haraway, Braidotti).

Keywords: technofeminism; situated knowledge; space; place; aesth/ethics

Latour et la politique des hybrides : personnages conceptuels S.F dans la pensée amoderne.

by Norman Ajari

Imagining the Post-Human: Cyborgs and the Utopian Project

by Emily Goldsher-Diamond

Originally written during undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence for a course on Utopian Fiction

This paper seeks to determine whether the human condition can be fundamentally altered, or completely erased, and... more This paper seeks to determine whether the human condition can be fundamentally altered, or completely erased, and whether liberty is dependent on the concept of humanity.  Furthermore, I will explore the cyborg within the confines of the Utopian Project. 

A Discussion on Bourdieu’s “Scholastic View”, Clifford’s “Dialogic Authority” and Haraway’s “Situated Knowledges” through an Experiment on How to Write a Dialogic Essay

by Alparslan Nas

Characters in the Essay

Nas: The narrator whose self is split. He loves avant-gardism.
A: A part of... more Characters in the Essay

Nas: The narrator whose self is split. He loves avant-gardism.
A: A part of narrator’s split self. She loves reader-response criticism.
B: Another part of narrator’s split self. He loves psychoanalysis.
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(It is a Saturday afternoon. Nas, the narrator of this dialogue is sitting on his desk, with a laptop in front. He has intensely been working on Bourdieu’s, Clifford’s and Haraway’s articles since Wednesday. He is expected to write an essay until 30th of December. He is just about to start writing, when all of a sudden he discovers different voices in his self and lets them express themselves. He listens to the inner voices carefully. At first they are chaotic, but he gives them consistency. He decides to mediate between the outside world (theories, articles) and his inner self. In the meantime, A and B are over the moon for they get the chance of speaking. It seems they have a lot to say.)

Entre cyborgs e híbridos: Aproximación antropológica a las transformaciones físicas e identitarias respecto al aprendizaje informático

by Andrea Naranjo

Hybrid Days, a transmedia congress about the hybrid society.

En esta comunicación intentaré establecer las bases de una cyborg antropología (Case, 2011), a través de una... more En esta comunicación intentaré establecer las bases de una cyborg antropología (Case, 2011), a través de una genealogía de los enfoques de estudio respecto a la técnica y la tecnología y su relación con el nacimiento de la disciplina antropológica en el siglo XIX.

Así, a través de la revisión de una investigación realizada en un centro de alfabetización digital en Bruselas, la cual pone en relieve los cambios físicos e identitarios relacionados al uso de un ordenador en un ambiente de aprendizaje, intentaré poner en evidencia el desplazamiento del objeto clásico de la antropología, a saber, el estudio del ”nativo en situación”(Gayané Tossounian, 2007), hacia nuevas perspectivas enmarcadas dentro de los estudios de la técnica y tecnología dentro de la disciplina antropológica, tales como una nueva concepción del sujeto antropológico: el cyborg en tanto identidad biológico cultural.

Getting dirty: Psychology's history of power.

by Peter Hegarty

This introduction to the special issue on the history of power forwards the anthropological
concept of... more This introduction to the special issue on the history of power forwards the anthropological
concept of “purification” as a means of drawing together disparate
histories of psychology that invoke notions of power. Drawing on the work of Mary
Douglas, Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault, and Donna Haraway, I argue for a history
of psychology that links the carving up of people up into their properly natural and
enculturated parts with keeping people in their place, the purification of interpretation
by scientific representation, the maintenance of the body politic of the discipline,
and the role of psychology in making up power in modern nation states.

Technonatures Introduction White Wilbert

by Damian White

An attempt to survey and think through the political implications of hybridity discourses such as Latour and Haraway for environmental politics. This is the introductory chapter from D.White and C.Wilbert (Eds) Technonatures: Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-first CenturyISBN13: 978-1-55458-150-4, 2009.

Lots of other really interesting cuts in the book from Erik Swyngedouw, Sarah Whatmore, Mike Michael, Steve Hinchliffe and others ...check it out at Available from http://www.wlu.ca/press/Catalog/white-wilbert.shtml

Thinking like a fish? Engaging with non-human difference through recreational angling

by Chris Bear

Co-authored with Sally Eden, 'Environment and Planning D: Society and Space', Vol 29 Iss 2, pp336-352, 2011

This paper investigates how recreational anglers make sense of, and engage with, fish behaviour over space and time.... more This paper investigates how recreational anglers make sense of, and engage with, fish behaviour over space and time. Drawing on fieldwork conducted around rivers in Yorkshire, UK, it explores how anglers differently categorise and differentiate between fish through their fishing practices. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of becoming-animal, and attentive to Haraway’s concerns for ‘beings-in-encounter’, the paper examines angling as a transformative practice, whereby anglers and fish adapt through their co-constitutive encounters. While anglers often attempt to ‘think like a fish’ when deciding on their tactics, we demonstrate their ambiguous classification of ‘fish’ on the basis of species, size and rhythm. Their attempts to become-fish are not always, therefore, with Haraway’s ‘actual animals’ but with complex groupings. The paper argues that studies should be more attentive to the heterogeneity of the categories of human and non-human. It is also critical of assumptions that certain animals, such as fish, are alien to humans and calls for greater attention to be paid to these, and to the non-airy spaces in which they dwell.

This one isn't about you either: The making of animal gender in the archaeological text

by Emma Nordlander

Unpublished work for the course "Theoretical and methodological problems in current archaeology 2" at the historical department, University of Gothenburg. Finished in Januari 2011. IN SWEDISH.

This essay deals with the problematics of using an exclusively human horizon in the archaeological field and the ways... more This essay deals with the problematics of using an exclusively human horizon in the archaeological field and the ways to broaden our reference point to include other, non-human elements in that field. Using queer- and feminist studies and its parallells with the discussion on animal rights, this essay aspires to illustrate how the western dichotomy between human and animal/nature affects our current distinguishment of the paleolithic material of cave paintings and carvings. The purpose of the essay is to find ways to include other aspects of the material world in our lives and our possibilities to perceive them and view them as not seperate entities of ourselves, but as incorporated in the definition of the ”human”.

Keywords: Chauvet cave, paleolithic, queer, feminist, animal rights, cave paintings, cave carvings

Eating Girls: Becoming-Animal and the Romantic Sublime in William Blake’s Lyca Poems

by Peter Heymans

Published in Humanimalia - a journal of human/animal interface studies (DePauw University); Volume 3, Number 1 - Fall 2011.

This article argues that Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of becoming-animal is aesthetically as well as structurally... more This article argues that Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of becoming-animal is aesthetically as well as structurally related to the discourse of the sublime. It investigates the species politics of both concepts and illustrates their ecocritical potential with an analysis of William Blake’s Lyca poems, “The Little Girl Lost” and “The Little Girl Found,” both published in his Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794).

Read full article:
http://www.depauw.edu/humanimalia/issue%2005/pdfs/heymans%20pdf.pdf

Managing the Experience of Evidence: England’s Experimental Waste Technologies and their Immodest Witnesses

by Joshua Reno

Forthcoming in the November 2011 issue of Science, Technology and Human Values

This article explores the techno-environmental politics associated with government-sponsored climate change... more This article explores the techno-environmental politics associated with government-sponsored climate change mitigation. It focuses on England’s New Technologies Demonstrator Programme, established to test the “viability” of “green” waste treatments by awarding state aid to eight experimental projects that promise to divert municipal waste from landfill and greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The article examines how these demonstrator sites are arranged and represented to produce noncontroversial and publicly accessible forms of evidence and experience and, ultimately, to inform environmental policy and planning decisions throughout the country. As in experimental science, this process requires that some bear witness to the demonstrators, but in a disciplined way. Whether through the extrapolation of facts about technical performance by affiliated third-party consultants, or the orchestration of visitor centers open to the general public, making the demonstrators public involves controlling the ways in which they are interpreted and perceived. However, the unstable publicity of waste management facilities proliferates unofficial accounts as well. These acts of counterwitnessing, as I refer to them, not only potentially dispute the official evidence collected from the demonstrators, they also can pose a challenge to the understanding of technology upon which such government initiatives are based.