Text: Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective by Donna Haraway

Date: Wed, May 28th at 7pm

Location: Prospect Park with Kyle & Connor

“The 'eyes' made available in modern technological sciences shatter any idea of passive vision; these prosthetic devices show us that all eyes, including our own organic ones, are active perceptual systems, building on translations and specific ways of seeing, that is, ways of life,” writes Donna Haraway in Situated Knowledges.

Science operates through the production of images which facilitate ways of understanding the world. We often conceive of these images as constituting “objectivity,” yet Haraway argues for understanding them as partial, constructed viewpoints. Science often seduces us into the “god trick” — the promise of a disembodied all-knowing view from nowhere. 

Join us to explore the terrain between scientific objectivity and situated subjectivity.

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