Goodeve Thyrza Nichols - Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: feminism and technoscience

Second Edition

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 modern technoscience. The books 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 books author figure, FemaleMan, encounters DuPonts controversial laboratory rodent, OncoMouseTM. This 20th anniversary edition includes a new interview with Haraway, as well as a teaching guide and discussion questions updated for the 21st century.

One of the founders of the posthumanities, Donna J. Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. 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 of Science.

Thyrza Nicholas Goodeve is a professor of Art History at the School of Visual Arts, New York City, USA, and Senior Art Editor for the Brooklyn Rail.

Donna J.

Preface and Study Guide by
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
With paintings by Lynn M. Randolph

FEMINISM AND TECHNOSCIENCE

Haraway

Second Edition

Second edition published 2018
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First edition published 1997 by Routledge

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Haraway, Donna Jeanne, author.

Title: Modest-Witness@Second-Millennium.FemaleMan-Meets-OncoMouse : feminism and technoscience / Donna J. Haraway ; with paintings by Lynn M. Randolph.

Description: Second edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | The title is an email address. On t.p. the hyphens are subscript; FemaleMan OncoMouseTM. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018003444 | ISBN 9781138303409 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138303416 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780203731093 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Feminist theory. | Feminist criticism. | TechnologySocial aspects. | ScienceSocial aspects. | Computers and civilization.

Classification: LCC HQ1190 .H37 2018 | DDC 305.42dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018003444

ISBN: 978-1-138-30340-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-30341-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-73109-3 (ebk)

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Front Cover: Lynn Randolph, The Annunciation of the Second Coming, oil on canvas, 58 x 64, 1996.

Lynn Randolphs angel, painted according to Renaissance conventions except for her transparent wings, announces not the birth of Christ, but the warning that life on earth is changing irrevocably. On the right hand of the painting, a cosmic galaxy made of a giant DNA molecule echoes the angels message. Striding through the stylized fifteenth-century Italian colonnade along the pathway of a computer circuit board, the classical and statuesque electronic goddess carries in her troubling body both a threat and a promise. She is a matrix, one who is pregnant with contradictions, emergencies, delusions, and hopes of colliding sociotechnical worlds.

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