CITAS DE OBRAS DE HARAWAY

SCOTT GILBERT
Metaphors of Haraway’s work: as philosophy and biology

Epigenesis is an embryological concept that celebrates interaction, change, emergence, and the reciprocal relationship between the whole
and its components parts…xi

Epigenesis tells us that "being" never is anything except the processes of "becoming." xi

Organicism was an international effort, and Haraway focuses on

three figures who typified the embryology of the interwar period�
the American Ross G. Harrison, the Englishman Joseph Need ham,
and the Austrian (who later led American embryology) Paul Weiss.
They had different backgrounds and agendas, but each wished to
uncover the Gestaltungsgesetze�the laws of organic growth�by
which the parts and whole interacted to coordinate the development
of the embryo.

This epigenetic interactionism, the consciousness of the aesthetic

and political dimensions of science, the awareness of level-specific
categories, and the celebration of change also constittHc some of the
principal characteristics of Donna Haraway's approach to society. Xii

One cannot reduce Donna's philosophy to epigenesis; but nei

ther can we understand her philosophy without it. Xii

three sources of biological perspective

Evolutionary developmental biology sees changes in development as essential for evolutionary change. xiv

Ecological developmental biology brings the concept of epige

nesis beyond the borders of the embryo. Factors in the environment
can also control the form of the individual

medical developmental biology is looking at the ways in which genes

and environment can interact in the production (and disruption)
of embryonic form.

History of science

In Crystals, Fabrics, and fields biologists

can access a set of robust biological narratives that subsume and
enrich the one-dimensional genocentric story that has dominated
biological discourse for the past quarter-century.

Haraway
ecology is also about "speak
ing with things," an activity in which intellectual and political prac
tices are knotted into myriad material contexts that link curious
bedfeilows and messmates, not all of them hurnan xiii

Hutchinson, Bateson,
myself, King, Hayward: a kinship web, a multidirectional cascade of
generations, an ecology of the academy, a form of companionship

HARAWAY COMPANION SPECIES MANIFESTO

In sum, “companion species” is about a four-part composition, In which co-constitution, finitude,

impurity, historicity, and complexity are what is
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I want to
use technoscience to designate dense nodes of human and nonhuman actors
that are brought into alliance by the material, social, and semiotic technologies
through which what will count as nature and as matters of fact get constituted
for-and by-many millions of people., P. 50