Feminist thinker and historian of science Donna Haraway is best known as the author of two revolutionary works: the essay “A Cyborg Manifesto” and the book Primate Visions. Both set out to upend well-established “common sense” categories: breaking down the boundaries among humans, animals, and machines while challenging gender essentialism; and questioning the underlying assumptions of humanity’s fascination with primates through a post-colonial lens.
DONNA HARAWAY: STORY TELLING FOR EARTHLY SURVIVAL features Haraway in a playful and engaging exploration of her life, influences, and ideas. Haraway is a passionate and discursive storyteller, and the film is structured around a series of discussions held in the California home she helped build by hand, on subjects including the capitalism and the anthropocene (a term she uses but finds troubling), science fiction writing as philosophical text, kinship relations, the roles of storytelling and Catholicism in her upbringing, humans and dogs, the suppression of women’s writing, the surprisingly fascinating history of orthodontic aesthetics, and the need for new post-colonial and post-patriarchal narratives. It is a remarkably impressive range, from a thinker with a nimble and curious mind.
Haraway and filmmaker Fabrizio Terranova (who we hear but don’t see) are clearly at ease with each other, giving the conversations—which are punctuated by images of artwork and quirky animation—a casual, intimate feel. Terranova makes playful use of green screens to illustrate Haraway’s words, or to comment on them. As Haraway discusses storytelling, we see an image of her in the background, writing. When the conversation turns to her own unorthodox personal relationships and the oppressive power of heteronormativity, the redwoods out her window are replaced by a crisp suburban street. Underwater invertebrates, one of Haraway’s fascinations, float by in the background of a room.
DONNA HARAWAY: STORY TELLING FOR EARTHLY SURVIVAL is a clever and insightful glimpse into the thought of a major contemporary figure.
Deconstruct Distributed Grow again Honor the spiritof the course and being sensitive to that
How it’s used in Cypris culture every day -> and how is it different to my every day (I know this but I’m going to use it in different ways)
What is intercultural Cyprian culture
What the motif means Material Only women produce this kind of work -> only in Melissini’s village in the whole world -> feminie rare. Compare this to Korean culture
Fostering intercultural -> shine a light on it.
One of several differentiation.
How do you use this materials and emonstates the growing knowlege of the intercultural practices (cross cultures)
(Melissini) I think researching te item and the culture behind the item using the lense of interculturality and transculturality would really help! You would be able to provide me with your thoughts and analysis and process from there into what you do with it!
productive way to be more critical.
use coordinates and relationship to ask questions
report back and build on
Intercultural practice -> where you get more knowlege
Also commenting on it (not to critique) Reporting back on the process Sharing and analyzing Ask questions to guide exploration
Re-value between them Tranculturality -> intuititive
Document from the UN -> talks about interculturalism
These are not dischotomies.
Relia / experience
Materiality / immateriality
Intercultural / transcultural
Positionality / intersectionality
Self / other
More besides?
She challenges anthropocentric perspetives, using people to more beyond human-centered narratives and consider the agency of nonhuman entities.
Make critical thinking sharp.
Ofcourse we judge, and then what happen.
Critical thinking = basically critical judging.
sustainability Moment of collectivity
Donna Harraway Identifying valuew what they are producing (having a conversation about the process)
Bring fresh eye (make a balance) Or more enthusiastic (of what they necessarily see)
Why would I like to work with this person, in what capacity and why?
Why would I like to work with this person, in what capacity and why?
The organization of the map and perimap is the province of an organizational code, which takes as content the relationship among messages resdient in the map and offers as expression a structure, ordered, articulated and affective display: a legitimate discourse.
How did I develop critical distancing?
To understand the bias or biases our relationship, the interplay between the researcher, the research and also be thinking about difference.
It is to understand ourselves better and our positionality so that we can understand. This is to sentitising us through an active procce of.
different groups are not anymore only divided by horizontal borders but also they are divided from each other on a Y axis which multiplies the sides of conflict and violence.
So, the actual ground may be far from stable, it’s extremely fragile and fragmented but yet there is the massive visual overproduction of seemingly stable grounds going on simultaneously like you know Google Earth, Google Maps
