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June 24, 2009
 

#philtech Regarding localization of theory: in "A Game of Cat's Cradle" H states disrespect for "boundaries of...nations"

Donna J. Hawaray. “A Game of Cat's Cradle: Sicence studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies.” In Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, edited by Marilouise Kroker Arthur Kroker. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.

p.46 Haraway advocates "Feminist, multicultural, anti-racist technoscience projects" because they "do no respect the boundaries of disciplines, institutions, nations or genres. The projects are as likely to be located in computer graphics labs as in community meetings, in biomedical worlds as in antitoxics work". However, she notes that this "boundary crossing in itself is not very interesting...", instead, "Technoscience provokes an interest in zones of implosion, more than in boundaries, crossed or not".

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Jul 03, 2009
sdv said...
In 97 Haraway argued that conmtemporary science had moved beyond Foucault's bio-power and has entered the 'informatics of domination', a different regime of visualization and control. What's especially interesting is the nagging suspician that she has helped establish this very informatics. There is a confusion in the middle of her discourse, which is that feminism is necessarily a radical discourse, in other words her celebration of the particularism cannot actually address her list of systems that manage life, and further cannot explain why her particularism isn't part of the systems - which after seeing the 'cheerleaders' of the invasion of Afghanistan we need to be particularly careful about...
Jul 03, 2009
Quinn DuPont said...
Are the particularisms of systems distinctions of discourse (the informatics of domination)? Foucault certainly takes domination to be totalizing, but need it be? Can there be localities of domination? Can the domination exist within a universal system that is beyond domination?

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