Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Thus is titled a book by Donna Haraway.
page 204: "My thesis is that the immune system is an elaborate icon for principal systems of symbolic and material 'difference' in late capitalism...The immune system is historically specific terrain, where global and local politics; Nobel Prize-winning research; heteroglossic cultural productions, from popular dietary practices, feminist science fiction, religious imagery, and children's games, to photographic techniques and military strategic theory; clinical mecial practice; venture capital investment strategies; world-changing developments in business and technology; and the deepest personal and collective experiences of embodiment, vulnerability, power, and mortality interact with an intensity matched perhaps only in the biopolitics of sex and reproduction."
Whew. And I thought Buddhism was cool.
page 204: "My thesis is that the immune system is an elaborate icon for principal systems of symbolic and material 'difference' in late capitalism...The immune system is historically specific terrain, where global and local politics; Nobel Prize-winning research; heteroglossic cultural productions, from popular dietary practices, feminist science fiction, religious imagery, and children's games, to photographic techniques and military strategic theory; clinical mecial practice; venture capital investment strategies; world-changing developments in business and technology; and the deepest personal and collective experiences of embodiment, vulnerability, power, and mortality interact with an intensity matched perhaps only in the biopolitics of sex and reproduction."
Whew. And I thought Buddhism was cool.
posted by Breathing at 8:14 PM
3 Comments:
It took her till page 204 to state her thesis?!?!
hee he
she's pretty cool - we read an excerpt from that book at new college, in critical theory class.
this is the kind of stuff i do in my phd program -well, okay, the kind of stuff i read. isn't it great????
it is great. I will be reading more of this kind of thing in the near future, i think.
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