From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.
Donna J. HarawayThe cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.
Donna J. HarawayTechnology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.
Donna J. HarawayWhy should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?
Donna J. HarawayScientific 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.
Donna J. Haraway