Donna Haraway. Cyborgs, Dogs and Companion Species 2000 1/9

www.egs.edu/ Donna Haraway speaking about the birth of the kennel, cyborgs, dogs and companion species, humans, machines, computer, organisms, technoscience, genetics, nature, culture, consciousness, philosophy, emergent ontologies, social relationships, societies, michel foucault, figure, reference, cyborg manifesto, and socialist feminism. Free public open video lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2000. Donna Haraway.
Donna Haraway, born September 6, 1944 in Denver, Colorado, is the author of Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology (1976), Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989), Simians, Cyborgs, and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), and Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse™ (1997).
Haraway earned a degree in Zoology and Philosophy at the Colorado College and received the Boettcher Foundation scholarship. She lived in Paris for a year, studying philosophies of evolution on a Fulbright scholarship before completing her Ph. D. from the Biology Department of Yale in 1972. She wrote her dissertation on the functions of metaphor in shaping research in developmental biology in the twentieth century.
Haraway has taught Women's Studies and General Science at the University of Hawaii and Johns Hopkins University. In September, 2000, Haraway was awarded the highest honor given by the Society for Social Studies of Science, the J. D. Bernal Award, for lifetime contributions to the field. Haraway has also lectured in feminist theory and techno-science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Haraway is a leading thinker about people's love and hate relationship with machines. Her ideas have sparked an explosion of debate in areas as diverse as primatology, philosophy, and developmental biology.

[@zachkutkey9478]

I'm calling my dog my post cyborg companion species entity from now on.

[@burnsr77]

thank all you at EGS for posting this wonderful series of videos. that this is open and free makes it even more appealing. wish more of us in academia has this type of ethos! well done!

[@anitrax17]

I don't understan why people say that she use "overblown language" and that she talks too fast. I barely speak ehglish and I did understand almos everithing she said... Why? because I have read her work... that's all that it takes to understand what she's talking about.

[@egsvideo]

thank you for the message. while waiting for the other clips i hope you will stay a good companion. the other files will be published in the next days - the complete transcript however is already published at the website of egs. thank you.

[@egsvideo]

thank you for the comment. instead of using the word "defense" i would rather describe it as irony - but as always: your are welcome. i hope you can enjoy the open, free, shared lectures and thoughts.

[@BlindBlannche]

WHAT! I LOVE HER

[@PeterHanley1337]

Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's meaningless or silly. This is a video of an expert speaking to graduate students. She uses jargon that only seems impenetrable to people who aren't in these fields/foci of academia. The things you quoted are standard language in the field, and it's not more silly than computer guys talking about backside caches and gigabytes.

[@wapatoecology]

it's kind of straight forward. that phrase means something like: the material world is itself. it is a sign for itself. "means" itself. you can not take mater and break it down into deeper meanings.

[@highway234]

awesome! can we have some 'za while we're learning about history? seriously though, this stuff is great. there should be lots like this on youtube. you guys get some really huge names in the field coming through there...

[@shackleton12]

@123joshb She's talking to people who study the subject, and have good vocabularies. Why should everybody talk like a Fox host? What you call 'clear' is what I call 'commercial media'.

[@egsvideo]

thats right. you understood the "dude" perfectly. even better, you don't have to think at egs - thats why all these smart people are there. just come and switch to consumption mode and everything will be fine. later on you will be given great jobs with a huge salary - and you wont have to work there either. the next evolutionary stage will be getting all the benefits from egs while not even coming ... :)

[@Alianger]

I prefer "haters back off" though.

[@abovethewaves240]

the material semioticity of informatics indeed! uc santa cruz represent!

[@axe863]

@shackleton12 "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience. " Einstein

[@random11474]

@illovich i'm a humanities professor, and this doesn't make sense to me. as a professor, you need to be able to communicate more lucidly. your job is to share knowledge with others; how can you do that when it sounds -- even to a reasonably educated person -- like you're speaking a foreign language? as much as i hate Krugman, he does a really good job of sharing his ideas in a clear, digestible manner. she doesn't.

[@GabinCortezChance]

I'm foaming at the mouth like a ravage dog for more of this. Feed me Seymour, feed me.

[@jtuppence]

God she's so hot.

[@LeeVW]

No thanks