The Haraway Reader brings together a generous selection of Donna Haraway's work, she is one of our keenest observers of nature, science, and the social world and this volume is ideal introduction to her thought.[...]
The author of four seminal works on science and culture, Donna Haraway here speaks for the first time in a direct and non-academic voice. How Like a Leaf will be a welcome inside view of the author's thought.[...]
Haraway explores the world of contemporary technoscience through the role of stories, figures, dreams, theories, advertising, scientific advances and politics. Kinship relations among the many cyborg creatures produced in the late twentieth-century - in nuclear research, genetic engineering, reprod[...]
Donna Haraway: Live Theory is an invaluable introduction to the work of this key contemporary theorist and critic. Concise, accessible and comprehensive, it locates Haraway in the context of post-Vietnam US academic life, drawing out the roots of her political and intellectual concerns. The book m[...]
"The Companion Species Manifesto" is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in "significant otherness". In all their historical complexity, Donna Haraway tells us, dogs matter. They are not surrogates for theory, she says; they are not here ju[...]
Donna Haraway analyses accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs (cybernetic components) showing how deeply cultural assumptions penetrate into allegedly value-neutral medical research.[...]
Haraway's `A Cyborg Manifesto' is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion socialist, postmodern, and anti-identitarian politics. Until Haraway's[...]
Haraway's `A Cyborg Manifesto' is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion socialist, postmodern, and anti-identitarian politics. Until Haraway's[...]
Gjennom sitt forfatterskap har feministen, biologen og vitenskapshistorikeren Donna Haraway markert seg sterkt på en rekke felter. Dette er den første boken som introduserer henne til et norsk publikum. Et tverrfaglig knippe forskere, som lenge har latt seg inspirere av hennes arbeider, viser hvor[...]
Haraways klassiker där hon lanserade sin "cyborgmyt" - och inspirerade otaliga filmskapare, musiker och it-utopiker.[...]
Inom vetenskapen har det blivit allt svårare att upprätthålla uppdelningen mellan det biologiska som givet och det sociala som flexibelt. Lika svårt har det blivit att dra en tydlig gränslinje mellan politiska och naturvetenskapliga angelägenheter. Klimatfrågan är ett tydligt exempel, där f[...]
Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research.[...]
Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures" which have had a great destabilizing place in Western evolutionary tech[...]
Social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. the book interweaves Thomas Kuhn's c[...]