The Haraway Reader
Language: English
Pages: 352
ISBN: 0415966892
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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.
Lorraine Daston a n d Katharine Park, "Hermaphrodites in Renaissance France;' ms., n.d.; Katharine Park and Lorraine Daston, "Unnatural Conceptions: The Study of Monsters in 1 6th and 1 7th Century France and England;' Past and Present, no. 92 (August 1 98 1 ) , pp. 20-54. 2 ECCE HOMO, AIN'T (AR'N'T) I A WOMAN, AND INAPPROPRIATE/D OTHERS: THE HUMAN IN A POST-HUMANIST LANDSCAPE I want to focus on the discourses of suffering and dismemberment. I want to stay with the disarticulated bodies
that's the short list. These wars are personal. They make me who I am; they throw me into inherited obligations, whether I like it or not. These worlds at war are the belly of the monster from which I have tried to write into a more vivid reality a kin group of feminist figures. My hope is that these marked figures might guide us to a more livable place, one that in the spirit of science fiction I have called "elsewhere." Figures collect up hopes and fears and show possibilities and dangers. Both
virtue of the operations of representation ( Latour, 1 987, pp. 70-74, 90) . The authorship rests with the representor, even as he claims independent object status for the represented. In this doubled structure, the simultaneously ' semiotic and A Regenerative Politics for l nappropriate/d Others • 89 p o litical ambiguity of representation is glaring. First, a chain of substitu ti o ns, operating through inscription devices, relocates power and action in "objects" divorced from polluting
context and for other beings, "They cannot rep resent themselves; they must be represented." Lots of well-intentioned, but finally imperialist ecological discourse takes that shape. Its tones resonate with the pro-life/anti-abortion question, "Who speaks for the foetus?" The answer is, anybody but the pregnant woman, especially if that anybody is a legal, medical or scientific expert. Or a father. Facing the harvest of Darwinism, we do not need an endless discourse on who speaks for animals, or
eluded him. In 1 92 1 , financing half the expense himself, Akeley left for Africa, this time accompanied by a married couple, their 5 -year-old daughter, their governess, and Akeley's adult niece whom he had promised to take hunting in Africa. In 1 923 in New York, Carl and Delia divorced-an event unrecorded in versions of his life; Delia just disappears from the narratives. In 1 924 Akeley married Mary L. Jobe, the explorer/adventurer/author who accompanied him on his last adventure, the