10 | Donna Haraway: Socialist Cyborg Affinities
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Bialpolitics of Post Modern Body
I think she wants to change how we're approaching actually, i think that the claim is that which metaphors we use to make sense of things has actual material consequences. She's coming from work by a people who are criticising this received model or image of what it means to do scientific knowledge production. I think if we don't have recourse to the sort of, like metaphoric, literary, cultural way of thinking that she's trying to kind of effect, it becomes very difficult to under. There are conceptual connections between something like immune system's discourse and policing of boarders as part of post modern bodies.
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