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Persona #156

Donna Haraway

1944–
American historian of science and feminist theorist; theorist of cyborgs, companion species, and the chthulucene

Cyborg manifesto and companion species — feminist science studies of human-machine-animal entanglement

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Attribute Donna Haraway
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Relational
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Relational
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Multiple
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Mediated
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Partial
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Cosmic-ordering
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method Mystical
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Relational
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Non-conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Donna Haraway

Relational temporality of becoming-with; the chthulucene as a register of multispecies kin time.

Space

Donna Haraway

Relational; sites of multispecies entanglement.

Matter

Donna Haraway

Substantival but reread as always-already entangled with machines and other species.

Observer

Donna Haraway

Plural cyborg-companion observers; multiple time-instances in multispecies temporalities. Cosmic-ordering: the chthulucene.

Energy

Donna Haraway

Standard physics with feminist-materialist inflection.

Information

Donna Haraway

Relational information of multispecies kin-making.

Internal Tensions

Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.

Donna Haraway

Haraway's cyborg-feminism was attacked from the Right as celebrating technological alienation and from radical-ecofeminist quarters as too comfortable with the machine. Her late chthulucene-and-companion-species work has its own tension with her earlier cyborg work — the chthulucene turns toward the worldly multispecies while the cyborg seemed to lean technological. Haraway treats this as productive rather than inconsistent.