Donna Haraway. Cyborgs, Dogs and Companion Species 2000 1/9

[jtuppence]

God she's so hot.

[anitrax17]

I don't understan why people say that she use "overblown language" and that she talks too fast. I barely speak ehglish and I did understand almos everithing she said... Why? because I have read her work... that's all that it takes to understand what she's talking about.

[BlindBlannche]

WHAT! I LOVE HER

[burnsr77]

thank all you at EGS for posting this wonderful series of videos. that this is open and free makes it even more appealing. wish more of us in academia has this type of ethos! well done!

[coachtrip2010]

loved the post-cyborg joke!

[backaround]

I saw this woman speak - AMAZING!

[ar15expert]

@backaround wat.

[123joshb]

The use of overblown language she uses and the speed at which she talks is a disgraceful act of academic exclusion, which should disgrace a feminist.

[peengwen12]

what part of she's talking to graduate students do people not get?

[shackleton12]

@123joshb

She's talking to people who study the subject, and have good vocabularies. Why should everybody talk like a Fox host?

What you call 'clear' is what I call 'commercial media'.

[axe863]

@shackleton12 "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience. "

Einstein

[bondeage]

anyone that posts something derogatory about this lecture shows that they inherently are not qualified to make an assessment

[IzzyIsou]

Oh, Lordy, she's trying to hard. She uses the same words and images again and again when she realizes she doesn't get the reaction she was looking for.

[LeeVW]

No thanks

[uwebristoljames]

is that Arnold Swarchenegger giving the introduction?

[CallousViciousness]

Hahaha!

[sdsunandfun]

It needs to have a child

[sanfransardine]

What a terrible speaker.  Alan Sokal, please come back and deflate these hyper-referential windbags.

[VinkoNoah]

What is Sokal but a hyper-referential windbag?

[wrettler]

Read: "Über in Problem des materialistischen Materiebegriffs" by Wilhelm Heinrich Rettler, Bachstrasse 22, 06886 Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Eigendruck im Selbstverlag, 2008

[ramramram30]

Listen this is about what happens technology and the body comingle around a particular type of ideology and poltiics. We need to always be aware of the types of agendas involved in any scientific or technological absorption. Haraway reminds us of this.

[lomez]

"I've always felt indebted to Auerbach's conception of mimesis."

Weird, me too. I think still owe it 12 bucks.

Ears. Bleeding. Nonsense. Headache. Self-important windbags. Oh my.

No, really, sorry to interrupt what you guys are doing here. To each his own. But c'mon. There is no way that anyone thinks this has any merit, right? "The irreducible semioticity of materiality." Give me a break.

[illovich]

Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's meaningless or silly.

This is a video of an expert speaking to graduate students. She uses jargon that only seems impenetrable to people who aren't in these fields/foci of academia.

The things you quoted are standard language in the field, and it's not more silly than computer guys talking about backside caches and gigabytes.

[random11474]

@illovich i'm a humanities professor, and this doesn't make sense to me. as a professor, you need to be able to communicate more lucidly. your job is to share knowledge with others; how can you do that when it sounds -- even to a reasonably educated person -- like you're speaking a foreign language? as much as i hate Krugman, he does a really good job of sharing his ideas in a clear, digestible manner. she doesn't.

[0scottweise18]

@random11474 I am professor in the social sciences, and I don't see it as my job to spoonfeed students. it's not my sole responsibility to communicate complex ideas to students---students assume part of that responsibility, usually by doing the readings and research. Given that she is talking to a crowd of professional researchers who are presumably in the same discipline as her and have (at least) some grounding in the same intellectual traditions. There is nothing 'non-sensical' about this.

[nurktwin1960]

Hey lomez, the NASCAR race is that way.....

[CitiesUnderSkin]

But she uses big, purdy words!

[wapatoecology]

it's kind of straight forward.

that phrase means something like:

the material world is itself. it is a sign for itself. "means" itself. you can not take mater and break it down into deeper meanings.

[0neironaut]

ack, great... another author to add to this exponentially expanding "to read" list.

[BillBillard]

dude said he made university the way it should be... so at egs there are no tuition fees, you get a decent stipend while attending, and it's open to all?

[egsvideo]

thats right. you understood the "dude" perfectly. even better, you don't have to think at egs - thats why all these smart people are there. just come and switch to consumption mode and everything will be fine. later on you will be given great jobs with a huge salary - and you wont have to work there either. the next evolutionary stage will be getting all the benefits from egs while not even coming ... :)

[highway234]

awesome! can we have some 'za while we're learning about history?

seriously though, this stuff is great. there should be lots like this on youtube. you guys get some really huge names in the field coming through there...

[BillBillard]

haha, well what a supercilious defense of class-contained/constrained - production/distribution of knowledge.

the above statement is so riddled with contradiction that i can't even begin to disect it in this forum.

leftist liberal contortionists abound...the above comment is textbook reactionaryism.

[egsvideo]

thank you for the comment. instead of using the word "defense" i would rather describe it as irony - but as always: your are welcome. i hope you can enjoy the open, free, shared lectures and thoughts.

[kathrodeo]

she doesn't look like a cyborg

[peapodfontaine]

Thanks for posting this! Better than reading it! She's a great, engaging speaker. I love her work!

[abovethewaves]

the material semioticity of informatics indeed! uc santa cruz represent!

[gabincortezchance]

I'm foaming at the mouth like a ravage dog for more of this. Feed me Seymour, feed me.

[egsvideo]

thank you for the message. while waiting for the other clips i hope you will stay a good companion. the other files will be published in the next days - the complete transcript however is already published at the website of egs. thank you.