Wednesday 23 December 2009

"The point is to make a difference in the world, to cast our lot for some ways of life and not others", (Haraway 1997: 36)

"The point is to make a difference in the world, to cast our lot for some ways of life and not others. To do that, one must be in the action, be finite and dirty, not transcendent and clean"

From Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium. FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience, 1997

Monday 21 December 2009

"Framing provides a means of 'constructing a world' [...]", (Bruner 2000 [1990]: 56)

"Framing provides a means of 'constructing a world', of characterizing its flow, of segmenting events within that world, and so on. If we were not able to do such framing, we would be lost in a murk of chaotic experience and probably would not have survived as a species in any case",

From Acts of Meaning by Jerome Bruner, (Bruner 2000 [1990]: 56)

Monday 14 December 2009

"I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think ...", (Lacan 1977: 166)

"I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think... I am not wherever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think", (Lacan 1977: 166)