Donna Haraway. Companion Species Manifesto Lecture 2003 2/10
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http://www.egs.edu/ Donna Haraway presenting the companion species manifesto, discussing the relationship and joint lives of humans, dogs and companion species, a response to her own cyborg manifesto, dogs, people and significant otherness, the birth of the kennel, cyborgs, nature and culture, dogs as fleshly material-semiotic presences in the body of technoscience, partners in the crime of human evolution, organisms, society, identity, social relationships, philosophy and feminism. Free public open video lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2003. Donna Haraway.
Donna Haraway, born September 6, 1944 in Denver, Colorado, is currently a professor and chair of the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States and the author of Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmen
tal Biology (1976), Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989), Simians, Cyborgs, and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), and Modest Witness @ Second Millennium. Female Man © Meets OncoMouse ™ 1997, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Sign
ificant Otherness (2003), and When Species Meet (2008). Haraway earned a degree in Zoology and Philosophy at the Colorado College and received the Boettcher Foundation scholarship. She lived in Paris for a year, studying philosophies of evolution on a Fulbright scholarship before completing her Ph.
D. from the Biology Department of Yale in 1972. She wrote her dissertation on the functions of metaphor in shaping research in developmental biology in the twentieth century. Haraway has taught Women's Studies and General Science at the University of Hawaii and Johns Hopkins University. In Septemb
er, 2000, Haraway was awarded the highest honor given by the Society for Social Studies of Science, the J. D. Bernal Award, for lifetime contributions to the field. Haraway has also lectured in feminist theory and techno-science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Haraway is a
leading thinker about people's love and hate relationship with machines. Her ideas have sparked an explosion of debate in areas as diverse as primatology, philosophy, and developmental biology.
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