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“Movements for animal rights are not irrational denials of human uniqueness; they are a clear-sighted recognition of connection across the discredited breach of nature and culture. Biology and evolutionary theory over the last two centuries have simultaneously produced modern organisms as objects of knowledge and reduced the line between humans and animals to a faint trace re-etched in ideological struggle or professional disputes between life and social science. Within this framework, teaching modern Christian creationism should be fought as a form of child abuse.”

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Manifesto cyborg. Donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo

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Donna J. Haraway
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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