Lecture 6 - Donna Haraway, Knowledge and Post-Nature.

Posthumanism and Technology

In this lecture my aim is to provide a synoptic account of how Donna Haraway moves from cyborg thinking towards what she calls companion thinking. Firstly, I will outline how Haraway tackles the question of the construction of knowledge with special attention to her essay ‘’Situated Knowledges.’’ This will in turn enable me to explain how Haraway develops a theory of biopolitics which sets the stage for Haraway’s later work on environmental ‘technologies.’ Finally, I will look at what Haraway has to say about ecological questions in her later work. While quite live to the challenges we face due to imminent ecological collapse, in the end, I claim that Haraway has quite an optimistic dimension to her philosophy.

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