Wow! Is this my first year of college or is this article completely lacking common sense? It's frustrating when someone writes in a way that makes people have to grab the dictionary and talk over each paragraph with their spouse just to understand what was just said.
To sum up this article the best I can would be to say that feminist objectivity means quite simply "situated knowledges". Haraway said that "situated knowledges" are about communities, not about isolated individuals. The only way to find a larger vision is to be somewhere in particular. The science question in feminism is about objectivity as positioned rationality." Haraway says that feminist objectivity allows us to become answerable for what we learn how to see.
It seems to me that Haraway is against modern technological sciences. She likes the idea of passive vision and embodied knowledges, she implies that technological science is unlocatable, and so irresponsible knowledge claims. I disagree with many of the things she says about the sciences; she says that artifacts and facts are parts of the powerful art of rhetoric. To me that doesn't even make sense, if you can hold something in your hand and study it how is this rhetoric? I do understand that scientists will make claims based on artifacts that they find and that later have been debunked, but that's just life and learning. That's what it's all about........
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When Haraway is talking about communities is she talking about physical communities or the virtual communities, and I'm sorry your last statement did you mean to put a 'and' in there because I'm not really sure what your saying. Sorry don't mean to be confrontational I just didn't get the statement.
ReplyDeleteThis 26-page article is a quite fundamental piece of theory in many academic disciplines. There's not really a lot to go on by way of summary or discussion here, although Laura above did try.
ReplyDeleteThere are many types of rhetoric including written, and visual. Rhetoric as we know it is basically the art of persuasive speaking or writing effectively. Our text books are rhetoric, art is visual rhetoric, and both communicate a message.
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