“Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that used to apply to organisms and machines. Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.”
Quote by Donna J. Haraway
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Donna J. Haraway
Donna J. Haraway is a prominent professor recognized for her contributions to feminist theory, science and technology studies, and critical animal studies. Born on September 6, 1944, she has made significant impacts in the fields of gender and technology studies, particularly through her seminal work 'A Cyborg Manifesto'. more
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