"The corpse is not the body. Rather, the body is always in-the-making; it is always a vital entanglement of heterogeneous scales, times, and kinds of beings webbed into fleshly presence, always a becoming, always constituted in relating." [163]
"No matter how many trips are made to the East, in its soul Western ethics is riveted to rights discourses." [156]
"... a Web site by its nature resists reduction to single purposes and dominating tropes. Links lead many places; these paths are explored by users, within the webs that designers spin but rapidly lose control over. The Internet is hardly infinitely open, but its degrees of semiotic freedom are many." [145]
"Human genetic disease is the moral, technoscientific, ideological, and financial center of the medical genetic universe. Typological thinking reigns almost unchecked in this universe, and nuanced views of the developmental biology, behavioral ecology, and genes as nodes in dynamic and multivectorial fields of vital interactions are only some of the crash victims o high-octane medical genetic fuels and gene-jockey racing careers." [143]
"... the capacity to respond, and to be responsible, should not be expected to take on symmetrical shapes and textures for all the parties. Response cannot emerge, within relationships of self-similarity." [71]
"My premise is that touch ramifies and shapes accountability. Accountability, caring for, being affected, and entering into responsibility are not ethical abstractions; these mundane, prosaic things are the result of having truck with each other. Touch does not make one small; it peppers its partners with attachment sites for world making. Touch, regard, looking back, becoming with -- all these make us responsible in unpredictable ways for which worlds take shape. In touch and regards, partners willy nilly are in the miscegenous mud that infuses our bodies with all that brought that contact into being. Touch and regard have consequences." [36]
"In my view, Margulis and Sagan's symobiogeneiss is not really compatible with their theory of autopoiesis, and the alternative is not an additive mechanistic theory but a going even more deeply into differentiation. A nice touch is that Gilbert and his students literally work on turtle embryogeny, studying the inductions and cell migrations that result in the turtle's plastron on its belly surface. Layers of turtling, indeed." [33]
"I am instructed by developmental biologist Scott Gilbert's critique of autopoiesis for its emphasis on self-building and self-maintaining systems, closed except for nourishing flows of matter and energy. Gilbert stresses that nothing makes itself in the biological world, but rather reciprocal induction within and between always-in-process critters ramifies through space and time on both large and small scales in cascades of inter- and intra-action. In embryology, Gilbert calls this 'interspecies epigenesis.' Gilbert writes: 'I think that the ideas that Lynn [Margulis] and I have are very similar; it's just that ashe was focusing on adults and I want to extend the concept (as I think the science allows it to be fully extended) to embryos. I believe that the embryonic co-construction of the physical bodies has many more imp0lications because it means that we were 'never' individuals." [32]
"Freud is our great theorist of panics of the Western psyche, and because of Derrida's commitment to track down 'the whole anthropomorphic reinstitution of the superiority of the human order over the animal order, of the law over the living,' he is my guide to Freud's approach on this question." [11]
When Species Meet
Donna Haraway
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