OnHaraway

Prelim. notes:

Is this where Peirce's 3 rather than 2 is useful? H'way, always the boundary smasher, shows how life and language (material and semiotic, physical effects and discursive practices, etc.) are co-constitutive at the least.
 * "material-semiotic"

Similar to Harding's strong objectivity. What are the differences? Both certainly see perspectivalism as contributing to a greater understanding and see a multiplicity of viewpoints as contributing to a better (wiser, fairer, more just) world.
 * situated knowledges

and "queer the self-evidence of... [just about everything]" (267). does she leave any "walls" untouched?
 * fundamental project: against literal-mindedness (15)

I still have yet to understand her distinction between diffraction and reflexivity. I take diffraction to be reflexivity + "activism." Using difference, make a difference. Instead of just recognizing where you're coming from, take it into account and be accountable. Maybe there's also a more explicit focus on "intersectionalities" that can create different and useful diffraction (refraction?) patterns.
 * diffraction.

like synechdoches, metaphors, aberrant literalizations (?) - but more than a metaphor --> artifactual. her way to 'show' rather than 'tell'? following different figures (oncomouse, femaleman, the air pump, etc.), she moves through an incredibly wide range of historical and spatial moments and presents her book in a non-linear way.
 * use of figures

seen as a "method of being at risk" (190). cyborg anthropology
 * anthropology/ethnography

"step [not] outside" (JD - i don't remember the french..) --> H'way both a "child of the enlightenment" and a post-modern prophet, of sorts. combining attention to class (marxism?) with post structuralist sensibilities and "method" (?): disrupting simply binaries, among other moves.
 * "mutated modest witness"

A few highly educated people in STS and cultural studies? The "lay" public? Scientists and engineers? In a way her book is a "modest intervention" (Heath) that, while strongly critiquing the practices of technoscience, leaves open the possibility for glorious, fun, useful "advances."
 * who is H'way's intended and actual audience?

more to come...