Haraway

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Jon Haddock's (American artist, born 1960) images in the series Screenshots are painted in isometric perspective, like popular video games such as The Sims. These images portray fictional and historical events such as civil rights protesters being attacked with fire hoses in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.

So, with many other feminists, I want to argue for a doctrine and practice of subjectivity that privileges contestation, deconstruction, passionate construction, webbed connections, and hope for transformation of systems of knowledge and ways of seeing. But not just any partial perspective will do; we must be hostile to easy relativisms and holisms built out of summing and subsuming parts. "Passionate detachment" (Kuhn, 1982) requires more than acknowledged and self-critical partiality. We are also bound to seek perspective from those points of view, which can never be known in advance, which promise something quite extraordinary, that is, knowledge potent for constructing worlds less organized by axes of domination. In such a viewpoint, the unmarked category would really disappear— quite a difference from simply repeating a disappearing act . . . science has been utopian and visionary from the start; that is one reason "we" need it.

- Donna Haraway (American theorist and social scientist, born 1944) Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

See Also

• Haraway
• Video
• Akutagawa
• Kuhn