On “Situated Knowledge” (1988), “A Cyborg Manifesto” (1985), etc. featuring guest Lynda Olman.
What is scientific objectivity? Haraway rejects both relativism and traditional, “god’s eye” objectivism in favor of a “cyborg” view that looks for alternate ways of seeing and acknowledges the ways that science and technology are tied to politics.
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