Subject: February Pick Donna Haraway
From: Dr.Wolfgang Schirmacher (wolfphilo@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 18:23:11 CST
Hi friends,
It seems some of you have still trouble getting the
assigned books in time. My advice: If you ordered with amazon or bn, don't
hesitate to e-mail their customer service department and complain - it
really helps.
Anyway, dear contributors, thank you for sharing your thoughts on WATERS -
good thinking on a tricky subject. As a rule, it is sufficient to enter
your comment(s) until the end of the month following the assigned readings.
So all quiet students, please speak up on John Waters before March.
My pick for the month of February is Donna Haraway,
Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: Technology and
Technoscience. Routledge1997, and I'll expect your comments next month.
A little later I'll suggest (again) a few texts from CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY
which may be helpful for your understanding of Haraway.
Here a sneak preview of Haraway's personal EGS web site (up in a few weeks)
as an incentive for your study:
Donna Haraway
photo
http://www.cc.colorado.edu/academics/anniversary/Participants/Haraway.htm
"Communications sciences and biology are constructions of natural-technical
objects of knowledge in which the difference between machine and organism is
thoroughly blurred; mind, body, and tool are on very intimate terms.
One is too few, but two are too many.
I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.
Gender is always a relationship, not a preformed category of beings or a
possession that one can have. Gender does not pertain more to women than to
men. Gender is the relation between variously constituted categories of men
and women (and variously arrayed tropes), differentiated by nation,
generation, class, lineage, color, and much else."
1999-2000 ACADEMIC YEAR
SUMMER RESIDENCY August 6 -27, 2000
www.egs.edu
Donna Haraway is a professor of feminist theory and technoscience at the
European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where she conducts an
Intensive Summer Seminar:
A BESTIARY AT THE INTERFACE OF NATURE AND CULTURE (3 credits) Explores
cyborgs, forests, dogs, and transgenics as entities emerging at the nexus of
culture, nature, genders, races, and knowledge styles.
Donna Haraway, Professor and Chair, History of Ideas Program, University of
California at Santa Cruz. Ph.D. (Yale). A wide range scholar-thinker who is
internationally known as historian of science, cultural critic and feminist
theorist. Her "Manifesto for Cyborgs" (1985) influenced the philosophy of
technology as well as science fiction writing. Author of Primate Visions:
Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science; Simians, Cyborgs, and Women:
The Reinvention of Nature; Modest Witness @ Second Millennium;
women@internet: creating new cultures in cyberspace; How Like a Leaf:
Interview. Hyperlink to Donna Haraway
Links:
http://www.anu.edu.au/english/haraway.html
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/haraway.html
http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~bruegg/cyborg1.html
European Graduate School - M.A. / Ph.D. Programs in Media and
Communication
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