Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.

Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.

I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that used to apply to organisms and machines. Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.

Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?

Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.