BEYOND THE CYBORG ADVENTURES WITH DONNA HARAWAY MARGRET GREBOWICZ AND HELEN MERRICK with a “seed bag” by Donna Haraway Beyond the CyBorg Beyond the CyBorg Adventures with donnA hArAwAy Margret greBowiCz and helen MerriCk with a “seed bag” by donna haraway Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex cup.columbia.edu Copyright © 2013 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Grebowicz, Margret, 1973– Beyond the cyborg: adventures with Donna Haraway / Margret Grebowicz and Helen Merrick; with a “seed bag” by Donna Haraway. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-231-14928-0 (cloth: alk. paper) —ISBN 978-0-231-14929-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) —ISBN 978-0-231-52073-7 (e-book) 1. Haraway, Donna Jeanne. 2. Feminists. 3. Feminist theory. 4. Feminist criticism. 5. Science—Social aspects. 6. Technology—Social aspects. I. Merrick, Helen. II. Haraway, Donna Jeanne. III. Title. HQ1413.H374G74 2013 305.42—dc23 2012041471 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. This book is printed on paper with recycled content. Printed in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 p 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cover/jacket design: Rosalyn Migdal References to Web sites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii 1. Adventures with Haraway 1 2. Natures 22 3. Knowledges 48 4. Politics 77 5. Ethics 95 6. Stories 112 Sowing Worlds: A Seed Bag for Terraforming with Earth Others 137 donna haraway Appendix: Some Bibliometric Notes 147 Notes 165 Bibliography 181 Index 195 acknowledgments Margret thanks first of all the people whose subtle but unwavering sup- port accompanied the unglamorous labor of writing: Johanna Oksala for her keen eye for infrastructure and those home-cooked dinners that got me through one Scottish winter, my brother Maciej for his enthusiasm and interest, Lia Litosseliti and Max Lents for always remembering to ask about it, and my parents, as always, for everything. I thank the Philosophy Department at University of Dundee for inviting me to do my research there and the Philosophy Department at Goucher College for allowing me to stay away for as long as it took to finish. Support for research and writing time was provided by Goucher College and the Leverhulme Trust. Helen would like to thank Katie King, whose practical and intellectual support for this project (and indeed my work in general) is greatly appre- ciated. Support for research and writing time was provided through grants from the Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University. Thanks also to Ted Mitew, Em McAvan, and Kandace Mavrick for their research assistance and to my Information Studies colleague Gaby Haddow for invaluable viii acknowledgments advice and chats about bibliometrics. Finally thanks go to my parents, Anne and Geoff Merrick, for all those days of childcare and meals that enabled me to get on with writing; to Alisdair and Julia for putting up with too many nights and weekends when Mum was always at the com- puter; and to Stewart, for giving me the space, time and support I needed to write this book. Together we thank our reviewers, whose careful reading, suggestions, and critique were an immense help in the writing and rewriting of the book. Most importantly, we thank Donna Haraway. We have been privi- leged to be the recipients of her well-known academic and intellectual generosity as she read and responded to our work and finally wrote the contribution that appears here. Ideas in this book have appeared previ- ously in Margret Grebowicz (2010), “When Species Meat: Confronting Bestiality Pornography.” Humanimalia 1:2, as well as Margret Grebowicz (2007), “Feminist Science Studies After Lyotard: Dissensus, Knowledge, and Responsibility” and Margret Grebowicz and Emily Zakin (2007), “On Promising and Destructive Monsters: Reading Lyotard’s ‘She,’” both in Margret Grebowicz, ed., Gender After Lyotard (Albany: SUNY Press). Beyond the CyBorg