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Video: When species meet – Excerpt of a lecture by Donna Haraway
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The idea of human uniqueness is central to western cultures. But suppose the world doesn’t revolve round we humans, that we’re just part of a network of relationships, between… well, almost anything? That’s the line Donna Haraway has defended for decades. She’s a postmodern guru, a scientist who broke new ground with a PhD on metaphor and biology, and has written that she would “rather be a cyborg than a goddess”. Liz Else wondered why…
