Final Blog

Haraway talks a lot about knowledge, and its relationship to power. Right away this made me think of Foucoult’s idea of power/knowledge. Haraway doesn’t say that they have to exist together, like Foucoult does though. She says that we have learned that with knowledge, we can achieve power. Her idea of knowledge connects to her ideas of language and subjectivity. She says that it is important to know that we are “…language-mediated actors in the knowledge game”. This also reminds me of what we discussed in class about subjects as the vehicles. Language is a part of the knowledge discourse. I think that her views of language build on Lacan’s theory of language. Language creates and determines our subjectivity and it is through language that our identities form.

What I get out of this is that Haraway believes that language and knowledge exist together. “Rational knowledge is a process of ongoing critical interpretation among fields of interpreters and decoders”.

Haraway says that “There is no single feminist standpoint because our maps require too much dimension for that metaphor to ground our visitors. The woman is made up of one single view, it is the joining several partial views. In regards to her ideas of feminist theories, I found her to be pretty similar to Irigaray’s idea that the female is a complex and dynamic in comparison to the simple and stable man