Another model of hermeneutic materiality appears in Donna J. Haraway’s socialist-feminist “cyborg” - a political-aesthetic persona comprised of constantly shifting, “partial, contradictory, permanently unclosed constructions of personal and collective selves, a hybrid of mind and body, animal and human, organism and machine, public and private, nature and culture, man and woman." (Haraway 1991, 157)
Haraway writes against a tradition of Marxian humanism that offers, in her view, only boundary maintaining divisions (base/superstructure, public/private, material/ideal) and secular Edens of natural innocence; her own call for a post deconstruction theater of “partial, real connection,” or material practice, reveals a commitment to continual inquiry via desire divorced from any final or totalizing resolution: “Some differences are playful; some are poles of world historical systems of domination. ‘Epistemology’ is about knowing the difference.” (ibid, 160-161)
Haraway writes against a tradition of Marxian humanism that offers, in her view, only boundary maintaining divisions (base/superstructure, public/private, material/ideal) and secular Edens of natural innocence; her own call for a post deconstruction theater of “partial, real connection,” or material practice, reveals a commitment to continual inquiry via desire divorced from any final or totalizing resolution: “Some differences are playful; some are poles of world historical systems of domination. ‘Epistemology’ is about knowing the difference.” (ibid, 160-161)
