#philtech Regarding localization of theory: in "A Game of Cat's Cradle" H states disrespect for "boundaries of...nations"
Donna J. Hawaray. “A Game of Cat’s Cradle: Sicence studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies.” In Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, edited by Marilouise Kroker Arthur Kroker. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
p.46 Haraway advocates “Feminist, multicultural, anti-racist technoscience projects” because they “do no respect the boundaries of disciplines, institutions, nations or genres. The projects are as likely to be located in computer graphics labs as in community meetings, in biomedical worlds as in antitoxics work”. However, she notes that this “boundary crossing in itself is not very interesting…”, instead, “Technoscience provokes an interest in zones of implosion, more than in boundaries, crossed or not”.
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#philtech instructions and ebook PDF link
Sorry I’ve been delayed with getting this all together; I’ve recognized that the Haraway book was terribly difficult to acquire so I took a little extra time to scan it and upload it as a PDF. I have not been able to OCR the text, so if anyone has access to OCR software and wants to do this please let me know and I’ll relink the PDF. For now, the PDF is at
http://drop.io/xyxafi8 .
As I’ve discussed before my intentions for this reading group are to explore some readings in the philosophy of technology. We’ve decided to start with Donna Haraway’s seminal ‘Simians, Cyborgs, and Women’ (PDF linked above). I don’t want to lay out restrictive rules or instructions, but I do have a sense of how I think the Twitter-based reading group should go.
1) The group is composed of a diverse range of people with different linguistic skills, philosophical skills, technical skills, and a wide range of interests.Given this, I think it’s important to recognize this diversity in all communication. I hope we can cultivate a loosely federated community that follows a pretty anarchic set of guidelines (i.e. make it whatever you want it to be).
2) The primary form of communication ought to be Twitter. The benefit of communication through Twitter is that communication will be kept short and frequent, and thus (I hope) open-ended rather than terminal. I hope we can explore the texts rather than shut them down with completely air-tight argumentation. The problem with Twitter=based communication is obvious: it’s rather too short to say much, and sometimes hard to follow. I hope that through the use of hashtags (#philtech) and the twibe (
http://twibes.com/philtech) we can track the conversations. If slightly longer correspondences are needed, services like posterous and other microblogs can probably suffice.
3) We’ll start slow and see what works. We are starting with chapter 1 of Haraway. Please read it and post comments and questions to twitter using the #philtech hashtag. Follow the hashtag and respond to others. In a week or so I’ll reassess and we’ll likely move on to chapter 2.
That’s it! I’ve already written far too much. This is going to be my last meta-discourse about the group.
Cheers,
Quinn
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Toronto's plea for streetcar funds rejected <- foolish ideas
He suggested Toronto could apply for stimulus cash to pay for infrastructure projects set for three or four years from now. By moving up public works like road or bridge repairs that meet Ottawa’s two-year eligibility timeline, he contends, the city could redirect the funds to streetcars.
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Please let me know if anyone is missing, or, if you ended up on this
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Does anyone have an objection about starting Haraway’s Simians,
Cyborgs, and Women in one week (June 22)? We’ll start slow at first…
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NYTimes: Census Data Suggest Asians in U.S. Prefer Having Male Babies
From The New York Times:
Census Data Suggest Asians in U.S. Prefer Having Male Babies
Experts say that small statistical deviations among Asian-American families are significant and reflect a growing embrace of sex-selection techniques….
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/nyregion/15babies.html
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