Donna Haraway: "From Cyborgs to Companion Species"

Donna Haraway presented her lecture as the 2003-2004 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley. Haraway is a prominent theorist of the relationships between people and machines, and her work has incited debate in fields as varied as primatology, philosophy, and developmental biology. Haraway's The Cyborg Manifesto, first published in 1985, is now taught in undergraduate classes at countless universities and has been reprinted or translated in numerous anthologies in North America, Japan, and Europe.

[@ebmena]

Thanks for uploading this UCB!

[@aMitocondria]

Thanks so much for this being available

[@camilaroriz9094]

so much love for her!!!!!

[@melati306]

thank you for uploading this! :)

[@dinmolle]

i adore her! reading one of her books now for a paper. but this is really difficult to understand^^""" a lot of new words going on there

[@espinacabebe]

I love her so much, she's so freaky!

[@ponomarevamary91]

I don’t understand anything why

[@MultiRozey]

This is interesting and inspiring to an architecture PhD here as well. I think she touched the hard topic with her own wisdom and attitude. Brilliant!

[@wooyunjin84]

She's awesome!

[@Curleyguitars]

This is just brilliant. Witty, deep and insightful. I'm researching second wave feminism/cyberfeminism/xenofeminism and this is a PERFECT compliment to those studies. Obviously it's a little dense and will need several passes to let it all sink in, nothing wrong with that! Thanks for the upload.

[@laurenzsia]

She is brilliant.

[@Dani_rohr_]

Between shifting translation transforming glad I found that video again and again

[@edizaledizal379]

She is a real distinguished scholar.

[@petramaitz]

She has such clear step beside of all boarder thinkers, she is just so independent and she all hug all hug the world critters and women….however, she is just the most convincing talkers of our times…"we are children of compost…"

[@SludgeMcPoople]

Brilliant and hilarious!

[@mizubiart6230]

Beautiful, beautiful thought. It reflects that truth that one lives, that laugh and sprint of joy one gets out of the authentic being. All life strives towards beauty- the overman is the achievement of human beauty, it’s golden gleam. Beauty is the culmination of life, in it represents ripeness, plenitude, climax of existence. And to such moments of beauty we must all strive, until we are beautiful ourselves, like children.

[@invictus327]

20 years later, emergence remains causally indeterminate. We know the what, the how and very often also the where but we do not know the why. Awesome lecture.

[@Xanaduum]

I believe it would concurrently answer the secret to the origin of life.

[@whitneyr6182]

holy crap... didn't realize there was a violently anti-Donna group out there. Wasn't going to use her work but now I feel otherwise inclined

[@jasmineforbes5739]

who is anti-donna?

[@chardonmay]

Her style. It's hard to find something that makes me focus this closely to what is being said.

[@gatienbecker9320]

can someone put some subtitles please??? even english plzplz

[@marcelamendozataylor4546]

great

[@gRosh08]

Yes, incited debate...

[@lamegalectora]

It actually gets much better if you double the speed

[@alliedesjardins5711]

I was given this link by my professor and am suppose to answer Why Dona thinks that we are all cyborgs? What is so unique about her statements and her philosophical position that you find fascinating? Do you agree or disagree with her? but maybe I'm just distracted by all the dog talk but I dont really see how this lecture relates to cyborg anthropology at all...

[@caitlinkeating2465]

I am in the same class. 30 minutes in and I am also at a loss.

[@seansmith5468]

Maybe spirit is a potential vs trait?

[@findingpablo3413]

Humans are not the top dogs; what is the relationship of all things to each other and where is it all going; followed by some comments and ideas.

[@DJStalinKGB]

Has this person had any brushes with Skavoj Zizek? Like, has either individual commented on the other or something of that sort?

[@vicenteisaias_]

10:40 Multiple de-centerings, multiple wounds to narcissism that the ontological human has had to suffer

[@mike4ty4]

What sort of background do you need to understand this? I am curious because I have been wanting to look deeper into the notion of "Feminist Programming Languages" and this type of theory is involved.

[@dominicmedina7432]

I see this lecture as being embedded within/around the intersections of critical animal studies, philosophical anthropology (anthropological philosophy), genetics, dog training and breeding, cultural evolution, feminist philosophy, linguistic philosophy, metaphysics, ethology (especially symbiosis), postmodern theory, and posthumanism discourses. Brushings with deep-ecological and related literature were also minorly helpful to my own understanding of this lecture as were my encounters with Haraway's previous work that I can succinctly but imperfectly lump under technohumanism studies.

[@Marenqo]

philosophy, anthropology, geography, sociology, etc.

[@alliedesjardins5711]

hey you appear to have a good understanding of this lecture, I was given this link by my professor and am suppose to answer Why Dona thinks that we are all cyborgs? What is so unique about her statements and her philosophical position that you find fascinating? Do you agree or disagree with her? but maybe im just distracted by all the dog talk but I dont really see how this lecture relates to cyborg anthropology at all...

[@Epsomgwtfbbq]

@@alliedesjardins5711 A bit late maybe; but essentially humans interacting with technology is so symbiotic and interwoven that she regards the nature/technology dichotomy as a false one - technology is merely an expression of natural (human) productivity and enhances/enables it further, so to speak. Really, in this talk she extends this understanding of the human as a cyborg further to regard all species as companion species. At least that's how I understood it. To sum it up, your prof's questions kinda suck for this video, The Cyborg Manifesto is from like '85 or sth.

[@deezbitches2219]

Anyone thinking about entering college debt, skip the degree and learn for free by watching lectures all day on KZbin.

[@copypaste3526]

But what about ... cats?!

[@Erickvazquezc]

I would love to see some about them too

[@celeritas2-810]

Oh man look up toxoplasmosis yeah. Cats and humans is scary.

[@Dani_rohr_]

accurate

[@kucasmukas7942]

What wonderful word soup this woman produces. Such a meaningful absence of form as substance takes form in lush and lustrious speech. It puts forth its meaning in words that make the reader realize that the answers are already to be found inside, if you only are willing to look harder. No doubt there is even more meaning in her words than can be separated from them just by examining them as mere words through obscuring lens of scrutiny.

[@neilwhitehouse9169]

yes, this the brilliance she offers, far broader than the topic, an invitation to be more alive

[@punchforpound2808]

Can you please explain what the focus on bodily fluids, ooze and slime are about with cyberfeminism? What's the connection between that and feminism and what women like?

[@loreberna9115]

Por favor alguien que lo traduzca al español

[@keithybrinson7804]

The nuclear wound is the psychedelic wound 🙏🏿

[@neoepicurean3772]

Could you not just explain what you're talking about clearly first, or to conclude? I have no idea what this was about.

[@ducknerddrake1497]

Because its nonsense

[@deafears4025]

Well, she has to have something going for her.

[@JasonJones-br3or]

Okay, so this is what Vogon poetry really sounds like.

[@MasonBuchko]

hey its the girl from ghost in the shell 2 :O

[@OverlordOfEcchi]

+COURT_FILMS 44:36 M'kay

[@MasonBuchko]

+OverlordOfEcchi ghost in the shell 2 forensics lab scene check it out :O

[@AshPaddyCOYS]

I agree with most of what she says but isn't she sometimes guilty of anthropomorphising Ms. Cayenne Pepper

[@Erickvazquezc]

:D

[@celeritas2-810]

Maybe Ms Cayenne Pepper was also guilty of cynomorphising Professor Donna Haraway

[@AshPaddyCOYS]

@@celeritas2-810 Maybe she is. We don't know and that's exactly the point. I think multispecies relationships should be a recognition and celebration of unknowability rather than a rendering knowable (which comes with it's own consequences)

[@deequeenstar]

Why does she keep removing her glasses and putting them on again, it's driving me madd🤣

[@hagfish_]

she's far sighted (common when you get older). She needs the glasses to read the paper, but they make the room blurry when she looks up at the people. So to see the paper (and remind herself of what she wants to say) she puts on the glasses; to see the people shes talking to (so she can see their faces and gauge their reactions and see whats going on in the room) she need to take off the glasses.

[@DesmondDaCyborg]

turn out the lights and tap that raw.... no doubt

[@Retrosenescent]

So hard to follow what she’s saying

[@Theo.M1989]

her neuroticism is apparent. passionate scholar. we thank her.

[@kensharp3059]

Perfect cyborg of academic hubris and intellectual haughtiness.

[@gurpchirp]

is she generating these words at random?

[@inreality9530]

+gurp chirp I know, right? Thumbs up!

[@geraldspezio1373]

She practices ... a similar cant of lawyering.

[@andrewdagglemort5930]

ok super mario santa claus

[@gatotsu2501]

p sure she was one of the big targets for Alan Sokal and his ilk back in the 90s. Make of that what you will.

[@inreality9530]

Look at her hand position in the thumbnail image for this video and you will learn her true intentions.

[@danielashley1507]

She reminds me of Jane Fonda

[@lamegalectora]

Relationallity? WHY DOES SHE NOT SPEAK SIMPLY?

[@freed4700]

21:42 sus

[@guada71]

Modern day social engineering

[@lemonlimelukey]

yikes

[@jesuispeanut264]

have you guys seen the film m3gan? well, at the very end, they killed m3gan. justice for m3gan. justice for haraway. justice for feminist technoscience.

[@SeanMauer]

This kind of verbal deconstructionism does violence to the nuanced complexities that make civilization function.

[@MrSlizzard]

SeanMauer says the clown with a Confederate flag behind him

[@SeanMauer]

Mandingus Since it's inception the USA has been on a trajectory toward rule by elitists.

[@MrSlizzard]

Go ahead, elaborate

[@SeanMauer]

Mandingus Before the constitution and the union, people had the freedom to start their own sovereign communities. Now we are all forced to adopt a humanist values system. See Kim Davis for example.

[@whitneyr6182]

+SeanMauer go on

[@paulholzherr2993]

I don`t doubt Donna`s qualifications but sadly I cannot listen to her.

[@MsIndiscipline]

oh no

[@rv706]

What happens when you have a ton of verbal intelligence but zero logical intelligence.

[@Retrosenescent]

Words ARE logical intelligence. She had 0 cognitive empathy to realize that no one will be able to fucking understand her. What we are witnessing is an autistic savant.

[@deafears4025]

Cliche'. Not even humorous.

[@theicediamond7]

thanks for all the pedantic bs

[@rv706]

She's fun to listen to. But there is no basic difference between *this* bullshit and Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning bullshit. Despite what JP might say.

[@clan_fraser19]

This woman scares me