How Like a Leaf: An Interview with Donna Haraway

by Haraway,Donna

• ISBN13: 9780415924030
• ISBN10: 0415924030
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-11-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"I experience language as an intensely physical process," writes Donna Haraway. "I cannotnotthink through metaphor... Biochemistry and language just don't feel that different to me." Since the appearance of her monumentalPrimate Visionsand the now classic essay "A Manifesto for Cyborgs," feminist historian of science Donna Haraway has created a way of thinking about culture, science, and the production of knowledge that has made her one of the most highly regarded theorists in America. She is admired for her passion and rigor, her wicked ironies, and her deep commitment to issues of gender and race, as well as species. The author of four seminal works on science and culture, Donna Haraway here speaks for the first time in a direct and non-academic voice. Thyrza Nichols Goodeve leads her subject through conversation about Haraway's intellectual development, theories and influences, the role of Catholicism in her thinking, and how her ethical stands have mirrored issues in her personallife. For readers who have admired and struggled with the rich and complex performances of her earlier works,How Like a Leafwill be a welcome inside view of the author's thought. At the same time, this work makes Haraway's contribution to modern thought available to a much wider audience who cares about the issues she addresses. This is a highly personal introduction to a major thinker's body of work.

Author Biography

Donna J. Haraway is Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
The House	p. 1
The History She Was Born Into	p. 5
The History of Form	p. 17
While Staying Connected	p. 27
California	p. 41
Interdisciplinarity Is Risky	p. 45
Organicism as Critical Theory	p. 49
Primatology	p. 53
Historical Good Luck	p. 61
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women	p. 65
Disease Is a Relationship	p. 73
More Than Metaphor	p. 81
A Gene Is Not a Thing	p. 89
Cyborg Temporalities	p. 97
Diffraction as Critical Consciousness	p. 101
Worldly Practice	p. 109
Breakdown	p. 113
Cyborg Surrealisms	p. 119
Unfamiliar Unconscious	p. 123
It Wasn't Born In a Garden, but It Certainly Was Born In a History	p. 127
How Like a Leaf	p. 131
Menagerie of Figurations	p. 135
OncoMouse	p. 139
Vampire Culture	p. 149
Modest Witness	p. 155
Telepathic Teaching	p. 163
Coda
Passion and Irony	p. 171
Bibliography	p. 173
About the Authors	p. 175
Index	p. 181
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