Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse - Softcover

Haraway, Donna J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415912458 ISBN 13: 9780415912457

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse explores the roles of stories, figures, dreams, theories, facts, delusions, advertising, institutions, economic arrangements, publishing practices, scientific advances, and politics in twentieth-century technoscience.

The book's title is an e-mail address. With it, Haraway locates herself and her readers in a sprawling net of associations more far-flung than the Internet. The address is not a cozy home. There is no innocent place to stand in the world where the book's author figure, FemaleMan, encounters DuPont's controversial laboratory rodent, OncoMouse.

About this title

About the Author

One of the founders of the posthumanities, Donna J. Haraway is professor in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Author of many books and widely read essays, including the now-classic essay "The Cyborg Manifesto," she received the J.D. Bernal Prize in 2000, a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Social Studies in Science.

Thyrza Nicholas Goodeve is a professor of Art History at the School of Visual Arts.

Review

"Donna Haraway writes about science like nobody else. She's exploring new territory, she's drawing new maps, she's onto something--the metaphors come thick and fast. Love her or loathe her, you ignore her at your peril."
-"New Scientist
"Haraway's 'modest witness' is a fascinating figure....In a contribution that is by itself worth the price of the book, Haraway produces a wonderfully thoughtful and complex account of...the interpenetration of biology and capitalism, two central players on the stage of politics....Haraway has produced a volume that richly rewards the hard work and generous literacy it demands of its reader. It is challenging, powerful, and unsettling to comfortable notions worth distressing."
-"LSojourner
"A mixture of passionate polemic, abtruse theory, and technological musing."
-"Detroit Free Press
"A conversation with Haraway is an experience you don't soon forget."
-"Santa Cruz County Sentinel
"It can change the way you think."
-"San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415912458
• ISBN 13: 9780415912457
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 378