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Selecting useful and meaningful Haraway links has grown into quite a daunting task over the past few years since I first started this page in 1996. I have excluded links leading to syllabi that use Haraway and topical bibliographies that include her work; there are far too many to catalogue and they provide little additional information. Also, with perhaps one or two exceptions, I have avoided link and hub pages that are broad in scope or that focus on content areas (such as gender and science, cyberculture, or cyborgs) that have affinities with Haraway's work. Instead, I limited the list of hubs and link pages to those that are Haraway-focused. Similarly, I have included articles that are strongly influenced by Haraway's writings while I have excluded articles that seem to mention her in passing or apply her metaphors casually. In other words, I have included websites and articles only if Haraway's perspective is a central focus. Also I'd like to recommend two very helpful links. One is the European Graduate School Faculty page for Haraway, which includes an extensive bibliography of conference papers, book reviews, article reprints, and translations. The other is the website for the 4th European Feminist Research Conference, which includes Haraway's full vita and audio archives of her presentation and presentations by her respondents at the conference.
Artificial Human Nature, by Warren Sack.Artificial intelligence (AI) critics repeatedly ask whether humans can be replaced by machines: Can "human nature" be duplicated by machines and, if so, are humans then just a special sort of machine? By examining the present and history of AI criticism it is possible to identify moments where specific critics have fixated on particular qualities as the "essential" qualities of "human nature." Reason, perception, emotion, and the body are four qualities that have been championed by AI critics (and proponents) as "essential" and (un)implementable as hardware or software machinery. I will argue that AI criticism's preoccupation with the identification of "essentials" of "human nature" has left it blind - or at least short-sighted - to the cultural and ethical implications of AI: the ways in which AI technologies can influence the scope and boundaries of "human nature." (Author's introduction) Between Dolls, Vampires, and Cyborgs: Recursive Bodies in Mexican Urban Cinema, Geoffrey Kantaris.I approach the theme of vampires and the living dead in cinema with some trepidation, not only because it's the right time of year for them to be popping out of their coffins and peeping invisibly into our mirrors, but also because I know that this is a theme with a long history in cultures in which I have little expertise. So as to dispel any illusions from the outset, I am not going to say anything very new about the cultural and cinematic significance of Dracula, vampires, golems, and so on, but I am, hopefully, going to show you some of the exciting permutations which these take on in the cinematography of late twentieth-century Mexico, as part of an on-going study of the re-configurations of late-modern and postmodern urban culture in that haunted and distorting mirror which Europeans often see when they look at Latin America. The Body Machine and Feminine Subjectivity, by Silvia Vegetti Finzi (Psychomedia, 10-11, 2000).Ever since philosophy abandoned the concept of soul it has been difficult to define personal identity. For Freud identity had its roots in the body. But the body ego (considered as a system of drives) is captured in a system of dialectics with the other subject. When the subjective body and the objective body intercross, then the image of the body is produced, an image that changes following the development of child sexuality and that individuals model according to their own temperament and history. In communicational relationships with others, the body expresses that for which adequate words cannot be found. Freud calls hysterical symptoms “organ language”. But in the technological age the physiological body extends and strengthens itself with accessories such as the telephone and actual prostheses, like pace-makers or transplanted organs. Where then does Anzieu’s skin-Ego< begin and where does it end? Cyberpunk science-fiction saw in advance the intimate connection between man and machine, as well as the production of androids, extracting from this hypothesis very interesting consequences. Instead of condemning bio-technology, Donna Haraway makes an effort to capture its aspects of emancipation and social utopia. Taken in by the great net of global communication, personal identity risks becoming dissipated into a thousand masks. What then does the unity of the subject consist in? In imaginative, mythopoietic creativity, which alone can contrast the depersonalization of globalization processes and the anonymity infused by the presence of technology. (Author's summary) Cultural Cybernetics: The Mutual Construction of People and Machines, by Ron Eglash."Cybernetics was coined by mathematician Norbert Wiener to describe the comparison of information flows in artificial, natural, and social systems. These flows include communication, computation, and control. Social constructionists have approached this powerful framework with a critical eye, finding it complicit with corporate and military interests and thus focusing on the ways in which society constructs cybernetics. Computational modelers have approached this powerful framework with an optimistic embrace, pointing to information networks as anti-authoritarian exchange media, and thus focusing on the ways in which cybernetics constructs society. Cultural cybernetics provides a methodology for the syncretic fusion of these two positions." (Author's abstract)
Cyberfeminism with a Difference, by Rosi Braidotti."In this article, I will first of all situate the question of cyber-bodies in the framework of postmodernity, stressing the paradoxes of embodiment. I will subsequently play a number of variations on the theme of cyber-feminism, highlighting the issue of sexual difference throughout..... In the rest of this paper, I would like to suggest that first and foremost among these iconoclastic readers of the contemporary crisis are feminist cultural and media activists such as the riot girls and other 'cyber feminists' who are devoted to the politics of parody or parodic repetition." (Excerpt from author's introduction) Cyber-Jouissance: A Sketch For A Politics Of Pleasure, by Irina Aristarkhova.An attempt to outline a cyberfeminist politics of pleasure based on Foucaut's "ethics of the self" and Irigaray's "ethics of sexual difference". Cyberspace can be experienced as a new "source of pleasure for and among women, as a means to share female geneaology based on embodied subjectivity". Since cyberspace, as other spaces, is built over a net of power relations, it is necessary to invent new forms of politicization in order "to create a space for a positive encounter between women as women not by nature, but by our own decision to face and think through sexual difference" (Author's abstract) Cyborgs on Campus -- Institutions, Individuals, and Information Technology's Mediation of the Body, a hypermedia essay by Rob Callahan.The purpose of this essay is to explore the effects information technology has upon the bodies it mediates. Owing to the enormity of such an undertaking, I have decided to concentrate specifically upon the uses of information technology within the geographic space and so-called "cyberspace" of Temple University. I plan to look at how the institution of the University utilizes information technology to regulate the bodies of its subjects, and also to look at how those individual subjects -- or some of them, at least -- employ the same technologies to refashion their own bodies. The text which chiefly informs this exploration is Donna Haraway's work (most significantly "A Cyborg Manifesto") on the implications of recent technologies for feminism and radical leftist politics. I borrow from Haraway the tropes of C3I and the Cyborg -- tropes which Haraway herself borrows from the defense industry and from science fiction, respectively. (As dystopian critics of information technology such as Eugene Provenzo have noted with regret, digital media encourage interminable chains of quotation/duplication, the unbridled borrowing of borrowed property.) (Author's introduction) 12/14/06 -- This is a dead link, but the article was great! I used it in my cyberculture studies class all the time. I am hoping it will resurface somewhere. Cyborgs in the Gym: Technopolitics of Female Muscles, by Krista Scott-Dixon.My general argument in this paper is that, contrary to the popular view of it as merely a simpleminded pursuit for large, oddly shaped, animated pieces of meat, bodybuilding is a scientific and technological practice. The bodybuilder not only conceives of her body as a site to be disciplined through various chemical and mechanical technologies, but as a collection of discrete parts distinguished from the whole, which can be individually manipulated. Thus I suggest that the bodybuilder is a cyborg. In her article, "A Cyborg Manifesto", Donna Haraway attempts to create what she calls "an ironic political myth" which combines postmodernism with socialist feminism. Central to her myth is the image of the cyborg, which is "a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction." The cyborg for Haraway is both a metaphor for the postmodernist and political play of identity and a lived reality of new technology. (Author's introduction) Cyborgs, Gender, and Performance (early version) by Theresa Senft.Performing the Digital Body: A Ghost Story in the journal Women and Performance by Theresa Senft."My thoughts on the relationship between high performance computing (as found on the internet) and gender performativity, a la Judith Butler." (Author's website) Cyborgs, Trickster, and Hermes: Donna Haraway's Metatheory of Science and Religion by William Grassie, for the journal Zygon, June 1996."This article is a close reading of two essays by Donna Haraway on feminist philosophy, the biophysical sciences, and critical social theory. Haraway's strong social constructionist approach to science is criticized by colleague Sandra Harding, resulting in an epistemological reconceptualization of objectivity by Haraway. Haraway's notion of "Situated Knowledges" provides a workable episte mology for all social and biophysical sciences, while inviting the reintegration of religions as critical conversation partners in an emancipatory hermeneutics of nature, culture, and technology." (Author's abstract) Decoding Perversity: Queering Cyberspace, Jyanni Steffensen in Parallel, issue 2.This essay compares Mary Shelley's Frankenstein figure along with various other images of the cyborg in Blade Runner and other popular cultural texts. It applies the work of cyberfeminists such as Haraway, Plant, VNS Matrix to issues of the gender, body, representation, and subjectivity. The Desire to Be Wired by Gareth Branwyn, Wired Magazine, Sept/Oct 1993.Article about real life examples of cyborgs, "jacking in," and "being wired," and our cultural fascination with cyborgs. Cites Haraway and Stone. Digital Identity: Better Living Through Bits, Donna Reidland.My current project is heavily influenced by computer imaging technology and the pleasures of Cyberspace. I consider technology to be coequal to the content of the work, beyond the fact that the images would not exist but for the facility with which I can manipulate them in the computer. As Susan Sontag says, "to photograph is a tool of power, that it means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge, and therefore, like power." Having access to Cyberspace exaggerates that power to infinity; the computer allows the user to mutate and change an image at increasingly efficient rates and with progressively more seamless results. 12/14/06 -- Dead Link The Ethics and Politics of Cyborg Embodiment: Citizenship as a Hypervalue, by Charles Habels Gray.Cyborgs, extended and augmented by prosthetics, can be described as hyper-bodies. As human-based cyborgs proliferate in type and quantity what does this mean for ethics and politics in 21st century cyborg societies? The ontological instability of cyborgs warrants the use of political technologies such as manifestos and written constitutions in order to ameliorate the potential of cyborgization to fatally undermine political self-determination and the very idea of citizenship. A discussion of cyborg manifestos is followed by a proposal by the author for a Cyborg Bill of Rights and a new mechanism for determining citizenship based on the Turing test. The article concludes with some comments on excessive bodies and citizenship as a hypervalue (Author's abstract). Faith Wilding, various articles.Articles include "Where is the Feminism in Cyberfeminism," "Notes on the Political Condition of Cyberfeminism," "Monstrous Domesticity," "Wounded Painting/Painted Wounds," "Metafertility and Resistant Somatics." Feminist and Postmodern: Donna Haraway's Cyborg, by Alison Caddick."In summary then, I have proposed that the development of the new reproductive technologies carries through a more: general transformation in the mode of the constitution of subjects. That is, in line with much recent social theory, but hardly applied in the specific case of the reproductive technologies, I take the view that persons are constituted as such in distinctive and variable ways according to the socio-cultural context of their formation. In particular, some theorists of and commentators on postmodernity help us to begin to illuminate the distinctive self of postmodern society, pointing to the contemporary science-technology nexus as crucially implicated in the new subject form. For the purposes of this essay I have drawn on the work of Donna Haraway in this regard." (From article; RTF format)
Flytrap, by Linda Carolli.Hypertext essays, text essays on cyberfeminism, and links. Essays include Women Write Risk: Cyberfeminism and Hypertext and Extended Bodies: Collaborative Efforts in Cyberspace. Frida Kahlo: A Postmodern Icon of the Cyborg, by Daniela FaliniBrief hypertext essay comparing Frida Kahlo to Haraway's Cyborg. Good Cyberfemme Housekeeping, by Nathalie Muller.Commentary on cyberfeminism and its male "boyscout" influences. Author's website includes interviews with Braidotti, Balsalmo, Plant, and other "Cyberfeminists." Gorilla Warfare: Culture Goes Ape, by Mark Dery, Village Voice Literary Supplement.This article uses Haraway to discuss Planet of the Apes and the recurrent image of apes in popular culture. "There's a Planet of the Apes feeling to our fin-de-whatever/eve-of-the-future moment; hairy apparitions of the almost human confront us on movie screens and in front-page articles." (Article excerpt) He She or It: The Cyborg Deconstructs Gender in Post-Modern Science Fiction, by Barbara Summerhawk.This essay examines one particular image of our postmodern world -- that of the cyborg and how it is used to question and even redefine our notions of masculine and feminine in the recent works of Marge Piercy and Joan Slonczewski. It will compares Piercy's He, She and It, a cyborgean classic of the '90's with Slonczewski's Daughter of Elysium, published in 1994. Along with these novels the author will make an effort to see just how much these writers are "building an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, using Donna Haraway's highly influential "A Cyborg Manifesto." Haraway, a professor of science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is assisting in the shifting of paradigms from the old narrower, pat ones of the white, male, heterosexual dominators to new complex ones where no one will dominate but everyone will share in consciously creating a culture with shifting, impermanent identities that offer us the possibility to explore new ways of being. (Paraphrased from essay) Infomaniacs, by Christine Waters.As electronic communication reaches its awkward adolescence, what are we left with? Is it a place for imaginations to soar without messy, bodily residue--or a place to hole up without human contact? (Author's introduction) The Inner Limits Of An Analogy: Hypertexts and Stem Cells, Interstitial Links and Prehensions, Tender Buttons, by Steven Meyer.Compares Haraway's notion of relationality to William James' use of radical empiricism and compares Haraway's use of style with Gertrude Stein's. The essay focuses mostly on Modest Witness. Intimate Perceptions, by Nina Czegledy (curator) for the Digitized Bodies/Virtual Spectacles art installation and CD-ROM.The Intimate Perceptions exhibition, an integral yet independent component of the Digitized Bodies-Virtual Spectacles project, investigates the ways in which the rapidly developing technologies affect our perception of our bodies, our lives, our imaginations, and our very future. How is contemporary technoscience refiguring the dichotomies of nature/artifice, real/virtual, body/embodiment, as well as the current classification of gender? (Excerpt) Locations, Liminalities, and Literacies: Science Education in The Crash Zone (and other heterotopian spaces), by Noel Gough.This paper arises from my curiosity about the educational implications of the ways in which our increasing familiarity with virtual terrains may be changing our understandings of ourselves as embodied, located and positioned in relation to those territories, boundaries and borders that we assume to be other than (or more than) virtual. (Author's introduction) The Loneliness of Cyborgs, by Michele LoydUntil recently, I thought of cyborgs as creatures of fantasy, perhaps achievable in fact in another century (if we don't destroy ourselves before then), but certainly not relevant to my daily life. But then a few sentences in Alice Adams' Reproducing the Womb radically rearranged my perspective on the subject. I was taking cyborgs too literally, and forgetting their allegorical value. While literal, albeit rudimentary, cyborgs do exist (such as people with pacemakers, or those with the Jarvik-7 artificial heart), the real key to understanding the cyborg is in seeing it as a metaphor for our relationship to technology. (Author's introduction)
Maslow, Monkeys, and Motivation Theory, by Dallas Cullen.One of the most enduring influences in motivation theory is Maslow's needs hierarchy. The empirical basis for the needs hierarchy was Maslow's own studies of dominance in monkeys and humans. In both cases, Maslow concluded that one individual's ability to be dominant over others was due to that individual's acknowledged superiority, and that differences in human or monkey groups occurred because of differences in the exercise of dominance by the individuals in those groups. The incorporation of these ideas into the needs hierarchy explains its intuitive appeal: the hierarchy justifies managerial power, while at the same time absolving managers of accountability for ineffective motivational practices. However, recent primatological research reveals serious flaws in Maslow's understanding of the nature of dominance in monkeys and apes. As a consequence, Maslow's theory is based on research which is no longer considered valid by the discipline in which it was done. (Author's abstract; note: This paper uses Haraway's Primate Visions to show the gendered nature of motivation Maslow's hierarchy) Presenting the Cyborg's Futurist Past: A Hypertext Analysis of Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera, by Joseph Christopher Schaub.Since Donna Haraway's groundbreaking essay, "A Cyborg Manifesto," there has been a great deal of debate concerning the liberatory potential of cyborg subjectivity. Of particular interest has been the effects that the cyborg, which dissolves the boundary between human and machine, will have upon the equally contested boundaries which comprise distinctions of gender in the late twentieth century. In this paper I will examine a cyborg construction which appears in the early twentieth century films of the Soviet theorist and filmmaker, Dziga Vertov. The Kino-eye (or camera-eye) is a cyborg combination of the mechanical movie camera, and the human eye. It is most fully explored in Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera (1929), the magnum opus of his cinematic theories. (From author's abstract) Manifesto Technologies: Marx, Marinetti, Haraway, by Steven Mentor.In the paper below I want to explore ways in which a manifesto is itself a technology as well as a discourse about the politics of technology and instrumental reason. Marxism, Futurism, and feminism have all attempted to theorize the role of technology in the modern world, and in doing so have attempted to disassemble dominant stories about technology and reassemble them in utopian and material ways. Each attempts to remake political identity, to retell history as the history of new techniques of production, and to linguistically embody and enact this remaking and retelling. In each case, language is self consciously a technique; perhaps the manifesto is simply an extreme example of the ubiquity of myth and narrative in all attempts at technohistories, and part of the politics of any theory of technology. (Author's introduction) Science of the Lambs, by Timothy Druckery.Brief English hypertext essay in German zine called Telepolis that discusses Haraway, eugenics and the clone sheep, Dolly. Science, Ideology, and Donna Haraway, By Robert M. YoungI'll only sketch the other movements which have undermined the science/ideology dichotomy. I have stressed various aspects of the history of ideas, because it is easy to think of that discipline as passé, rather than realising how subversive it was, long before anyone set out - as an avowedly political project to push against the distinction between science and ideology. The history of ideas provided the essential basis for joining forces with social and cultural studies. .... All of which brings me to Donna Haraway, to whose work I shall devote the rest of this essay. In particular, I want to celebrate her masterpiece, Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science, which is among the dozen best books I have ever read. (Excerpt) Spaces: Pleasure and the Seduction of the Cyborg Discourse, by P.K.Jamison, in The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture, 2:1, 1994."I provide a brief exploration of the seduction of the cyborg discourse and the expanding integration of living organism and machine found in a variety of settings. The question I ask about cyborgs is, "What tension lies in a discourse that envisions machines as facilitators of pleasure?" The cyborg discourse, seen in relation to the concept of pleasure, is one example of a contradiction that is constructed during inquiry into the "meaning" of social reality." (Author's abstract) Telematic Life Forms, by J. van Brakel, in Philosophy and Technology, 4:3, Spring 1999.This essay borrows from Haraway's Modest Witness to talk about current academic discourse about virtual reality and "telematics." The author writes that while the combination of computer and telecommunications technologies indeed changes the life forms of human beings, the newness of some changes is exaggerated, and more importantly there tends to be an overemphasis on the effects of the (fragmented) individual at the expense of effects on human life forms in general. He concludes by arguing that "it might be a good thing to worry less about "the very identity of the human personality" -- a rather parochial concept. The social ramifications for a lifeworld that is both increasingly virtual and also real is more important than indulging in the exoticism of virtual realities." Of Tools and Toys: Donna Haraway's Cyborgs and the Power of Serious Play, by Jenny Cool.Though explicitly addressed to envisioning a possible politics for socialist-feminism, Haraway's ironic dream captures the attention and imagination of academics in disparate fields because, as with all dreams, the operation of signifying condensation is fundemantal to it. Through condensation, dreams achieve a radical economy of signification, making them richly polysemic and overdetermined, without reduction. (Freud) This essay sets out to unpack some of the most potent elements of Haraway's cyborg dream and to show how they speak both: to some central tensions within feminism (among feminisms?); and to deep anxieties within the broader field of contemporary criticism. I undertake this unpacking by way of accounting for the Manifesto's popularity, but wish, subsequently (and simultaneously) to present my own reading of Haraway's test as an invocation to reform our view of theory and take up, through model-making, the generative power of as if. (Author's introduction) Was That Last Turn a Right Turn: The Semiotic Turn, by Timothy Lenoir in Configurations 2 (1994): 119-136.In what follows I survey and assess some of the latest efforts to conceptualize science studies as cultural studies. Within this general movement I will limit my concern to the interesting, provocative, and sometimes mystifying "semiotic turn" in some of the most recent science studies. Specifically, I have in mind the papers of Bruno Latour and Madaleine Akrich presenting what they call a "semiotics of human and nonhuman assemblies"; Donna Haraway's papers on what she calls "material-semiotic actors," notably her "Promises of Monsters," "Situated Knowledges," and "Cyborg Manifesto"; and N. Katherine Hayles's proposal for enrolling these hybrids in a semiotically inspired program of "constrained constructivism." By tracing the versions of semiotics presented in these papers to their source, I seek an answer to this question: was that last turn the right turn? (Author's Introduction) Writing One's Self: The Power to be Seized, Mary Walsh.Contra Haraway, we can write our selves academically only once we have been legitimzed into a discourse community. You are Cyborg, by Hari Kunzru, Wired Magazine, Feb 1997.Wired magazine article on Donna Haraway, Cyborgs, and cyberfeminism.
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