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"Some people might well know explicitly that map-making is essential to enclosing entities (land, minerals, populations, minerals, etc.) and readying them for further exploration, specification, //sale, contract,// protection, management or whatever. These practices could be understood as potentially controversial and full of desires and purposes, but the maps themsleves would seem to be a reliable foundation, free of troping, guaranteed by the purity of number and quanitifcation, outside of yearning and stuttering." (Haraway 136) Italics Added.

Haraway could be talking about our elevation of "pure science" (the map) over applied science/technology (what the map is readied for). Alternatively, she is very explicitly reiterating her point about how we have "commodified the fetish" (Haraway 135), devaluing humanity while valuing (with actual dollars and cents) "life", all the while giving "life" new names, like "gene".

I made the symbol by combining Saussure's divided circle (signifier-signified) and Lacan's/Freud's 3 pointed representation of signs in language (Real-Imaginary-Symbolic). Is it just me, or does it look like an upside-down peace sign with an extra line in there somewhere!?! Maybe instead of campaign for nuclear disarmament, it should be

Campaign for Nucleoside Disambiguation? Complex Nucleoside Determinism? //Corporate Nucleoside Development?//

Ah, that one fits the best I think.

Haraway, Donna Modest Witness@Second Millenium. FemaleMan Meets OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience New York: Routledge, 1997