Informatics of Domination
I am a sucker for these sorts of thought frameworks, so today I wanted to post this sample from Donna Haraway's seminal watershed essay "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century."
(Don't just take it from me … listen here.)
| "comfortable old hierarchical dominations" | "scary new networks" |
| Representation | Simulation |
| Bourgeois novel, realism | Science fiction, postmodernism |
| Organism | Biotic component |
| Depth, integrity | Surface, boundary |
| Heat | Noise |
| Biology as clinical practice | Biology as inscription |
| Physiology | Communications engineering |
| Small group | Subsystem |
| Perfection | Optimization |
| Eugenics | Population control |
| Decadence, Magic Mountain | Obsolescence, Future Shock |
| Hygiene | Stress Management |
| Microbiology, tuberculosis | Immunology, AIDS |
| Organic division of labour | Ergonomics/Cybernetics of labour |
| Functional specialization | Modular construction |
| Reproduction | Replication |
| Organic sex role specialization | Optimal genetic strategies |
| Biological determinism | Evolutionary inertia, constraints |
| Community ecology | Ecosystem |
| Racial chain of being | Neo-imperialism, United Nations humanism |
| Scientific management in home/factory | Global factory/Electronic cottage |
| Family/Market/Factory | Women in the Integrated Circuit |
| Family wage | Comparable worth |
| Public/Private | Cyborg citizenship |
| Nature/Culture | Fields of difference |
| Cooperation | Communications enhancement |
| Freud | Lacan |
| Sex | Genetic engineering |
| Labor | Robotics |
| Mind | Artificial Intelligence |
| World War II | Star Wars |
| White Capitalist Patriarchy | Informatics of Domination |
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February 20th, 2010
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