Donna Haraway and the Implosion of the Modern Science Project
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https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2024v32n293449Keywords:
Nature-Culture, Cyborg, Objectivity, Situated Knowledges, Modest WitnessAbstract
This work aims to analysing Donna Haraway's techno-feminism, her critical reading of the construction of the modern science project, based on the separation between nature and culture. To understand it, we will analyse three texts written between the 1980s and 1990s: The Cyborg Manifesto, Situated Knowledge and Modest Witness. Her concept of cyborg and fractured identities, and his criticism of the construction of the figure of the scientist as a subject from “nowhere” and, therefore, the only one capable of giving valid and reliable testimony, explore the impossibility of a system that tends to implode. If there is no scientific objectivity that is not implied in a location, the scientist or the “modest witness” is embodied and his gaze, like that of all, as well as his production is always partial.
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