Jan 3, 2017
The 'eyes' made available in modern technological sciences shatter any idea of passive vision; these prosthetic devices show us that all eyes, including our own organic ones, are active perceptual systems, building in translations and specific ways of seeing, that is, ways of life. [...] All these pictures of the world should not be allegories of infinite mobility and interchangeability, but of elaborate specificity and difference and the loving care people might take to learn how to see faithfully from another's point of view, even when the other is our own machine.
Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective“
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