Beyond the Cyborg
Adventures with Donna Haraway
by Margret Grebowicz, Helen Merrick
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Pub Date Jul 02 2013 | Archive Date Aug 27 2013
Description
Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores her influence on feminist theory and philosophy, paying particular attention to her more recent work on companion species, rather than her "Manifesto for Cyborgs."
Margret Grebowicz and Helen Merrick argue that the ongoing fascination with, and re-production of, the cyborg has overshadowed Haraway's extensive body of work in ways that run counter to her own transdisciplinary practices. Sparked by their own personal "adventures" with Haraway's work, the authors offer readings of her texts framed by a series of theoretical and political perspectives: feminist materialism, standpoint epistemology, radical democratic theory, queer theory, and even science fiction. They situate Haraway's critical storytelling and "risky reading" practices as forms of feminist methodology and recognize her passionate engagement with "naturecultures" as the theoretical core driving her work. Chapters situate Haraway as critic, theorist, biologist, feminist, historian, and humorist, exploring the full range of her identities and reflecting her commitment to embodying all of these modes simultaneously.
A Note From the Publisher
Also available in a paperback edition 9780231149297 $27.50
Advance Praise
"In chapters that stand out for their admirable lucidity of thought and language, the authors retrace major dimensions of Donna Haraway's thought and often provide impressively detailed descriptions and comparisons of her arguments with those of other thinkers such as Sandra Harding, Jacques Derrida, Chantal Mouffe, and Jean-François Lyotard. The overall result is a carefully elaborated, clear outline of Haraway's thought from which scholars and students in many disciplines will learn immensely."
—Ursula K. Heise , University of California, Los Angeles
"A significant contribution to the field, this book's greatest strength is in its reading of science fiction and Donna Haraway's work in relation to science fiction and the wonderful essay by Haraway herself."
—Lorraine Code, York University
"How to do justice to the gift, legacy, and challenge of Donna Haraway’s thought? With this book – surprisingly one of the first sustained commentaries on this giant of critical theory – Grebowicz and Merrick answer such a question. Combining passion and great precision, the authors demonstrate the ongoing vitality of Haraway’s ideas for various emerging interdisciplinary fields, including animal studies, biopolitics, and science and technology studies; carefully noting how a “multispecies socialist feminism” informs – or should inform – all of these. A detailed and indispensable map of not only the complex terrain of Haraway’s work, but also those parts of the atlas marked as, “here be genetically modified space dragons."
—Dominic Pettman, author of Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines
"What happens when SF (speculative feminisms, science fiction/s) is the serious launching pad for, but not a grounding of, feminisms? Adventuring with Haraway, co-companioned by SF feminists, we are invited into a series of transdisciplinary stories that multiply enfold three decades and more of multispecies curiosity. Disciplinary homes turn out to have dog-beaches at their edge, and we get to walk and play among natures, knowledges, politics, ethics, stories. When Haraway comes along and hands us all carrying bags for mutter, manure, and matter-ing, demonstrations and practices for hardy and soiled wisdoms become feminist acts of alertness without pretentions to innocence."
—Katie King, author of Networked Reenactments
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780231149280 |
| PRICE | $84.50 (USD) |
