Donna Haraway speaking about the birth of the kennel, cyborgs, dogs and companion species, humans, machines, computer, organisms, technoscience, genetics, nature, culture, consciousness, philosophy, emergent ontologies, social relationships, societies, michel foucault, figure, reference, cyborg manifesto, and socialist feminism.

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.

"The Cyborg Manifesto" is a strange document, a mixture of passionate polemic, abstruse theory, and technological musing. Haraway calls it "an ironic political myth." It pulls off the not inconsiderable trick of turning the cyborg from an icon of Cold War power into a symbol of feminist liberation - not bad for the first thing she wrote on her newly acquired computer.

In the manifesto, Haraway argues that the cyborg - a fusion of animal and machine - trashes the big oppositions between nature and culture, self and world that run through so much of our thought. Why is this important? In conversation, when people describe something as natural, they're saying that it's just how the world is; we can't change it.

Women for generations were told that they were "naturally" weak, submissive, overemotional, and incapable of abstract thought. That it was "in their nature" to be mothers rather than corporate raiders, to prefer parlor games to particle physics. If all these things are natural, t

Donna Haraway came to UC Santa Cruz in 1980 as a professor in the History of Consciousness Program (Histcon), one of the first interdisciplinary graduate programs in the United States. Her position in feminist theory within Histcon’s graduate program was probably the first one of its kind in the country. While Haraway’s philosophy and theories infuse this narrative, the focus and scope of this oral history is her life at UC Santa Cruz. Haraway’s interest in aurality and in the interview format has inspired us to provide the recordings of her interview(s) MP3 format on the library’s website, in addition to this transcript. While Haraway lightly edited the manuscript in places, for the most part the transcript can be used as a “finding aid” to the oral interview.

The central concept of feminist epistemology is that of a situated knower, and hence of situated knowledge: knowledge that reflects the particular perspectives of the subject. Feminist philosophers are interested in how gender situates knowing subjects. They have articulated three main approaches to this question: feminist standpoint theory, feminist postmodernism, and feminist empiricism. Different conceptions of how gender situates knowers also inform feminist approaches to the central problems of the field: grounding feminist criticisms of science and feminist science, defining the proper roles of social and political values in inquiry, evaluating ideals of objectivity and rationality, and reforming structures of epistemic authority.

I know it's saccharine, but it's so damn cute.

Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file. The majority of these points are established tradition, sprinkled with modern trends and a bit of my own opinion having lettered professionally for a few years now. The majority of these ideas have been established by Marvel and DC, but opinions vary from editor to editor, even within the same company. I'm often asked to bend or break these rules based on what "feels" best, or more likely, the space constraints within a panel.

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"Ultimately, I think Blood will be your thing if you want to take an easy pace with your DK. I am told that you're pretty much unkillable as Blood, which I don't doubt. However, if you actually want to try, Unholy is your spec. "

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The P22 Music Text Composition Generator allows any text to be converted into a musical composition. This composition is displayed in musical notation and simultaneously generated as a midi file.