Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Donna J. Haraway Quotes: Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.
         

Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.


Donna J. Haraway
Check all other quotes by Donna J. Haraway

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Donna J. Haraway Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Thu. 28 Mar. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/Our-machines-are-disturbingly-lively-and-we-528945>.





Check out


Other quotes of Donna J. Haraway


Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.

Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.



We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for a monstrous world without gender.

We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for a monstrous world without gender.



A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.



Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?

Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?



I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess.



The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion



Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.



The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.

The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.



By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.



Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges





Other quotes you may like


I have always found peace among books.

I have always found peace among books.





He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.



My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?



To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.



I seriously started drinking probably when I was about twelve. Kids are doing a lot of stuff very early.

I seriously started drinking probably when I was about twelve. Kids are doing a lot of stuff very early.



The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.

The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.



The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.

The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.



If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.

If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.". Author of this quote is Donna J. Haraway. This quote is about lively, machines, cyborg,.