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" The knowing self is partial in all its guises, never finished, whole, simply there and original; it is always constructed and stitched together imperfectly, and therefore able to join with another, to see together without claiming to be another. "
Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern - Page 14
by Carolyn Dinshaw - 1999 - 345 pages
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Writing Selves: Contemporary Feminist Autobiography

Jeanne Martha Perreault - American literature - 1995 - 170 pages
...will quote a rather long section from her remarks on the "Western eye" as a figure of perspective: The knowing self is partial in all its guises, never...another, to see together without claiming to be another. Here is the promise of obiectivity: a scientific knower seeks the subject positinn not of identity,...
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Cultures of Vision: Images, Media, and the Imaginary

Ron Burnett - Performing Arts - 1995 - 372 pages
...has put it this way: "The topography of subjectivity is multi-dimensional; so, therefore is vision. The knowing self is partial in all its guises, never...with another, to see together without claiming to be another."33 Your image is split between the subjective sense you have of "being" in the hallway and...
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Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk

Joseph Tabbi - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 262 pages
...as Donna Haraway's feminist "cyborg," a part-human, part-technological embodiment whose subjectivity is "partial in all its guises, never finished, whole,...another, to see together without claiming to be another" ("Postscript" 22). Monstrous and violent though he may be, and despite all his claims to be a Harlem...
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Taboo: Sex, Identity, and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork

Don Kulick, Margaret Willson - Education - 1995 - 314 pages
...speaks more directly about the self. 'The knowing self, she explains in prose similar to Probyn's, 'is partial in all its guises, never finished, whole,...another, to see together without claiming to be another' (Haraway 1991: 193, emphasis in original). Furthermore, this 'split and partial self is the one who...
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Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice

Judith Kegan Gardiner - Philosophy - 1995 - 356 pages
...changing. Again, Donna Haraway puts this point very clearly: "Subjectivity is multidimensional. . . . The knowing self is partial in all its guises, never...simply there and original; it is always constructed, situated together imperfectly, and therefore able to join with another, to see together without claiming...
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Moral Voices, Moral Selves: Carol Gilligan and Feminist Moral Theory

Susan J. Hekman - Philosophy - 1995 - 212 pages
...squashed into isomorphic slots" (1988: 586). She concludes: "Subjectivity is multidimensionaL . . . The knowing self is partial in all its guises, never...simply there and original; it is always constructed, situated together imperfectly, and therefore able to join with another, to see together without claiming...
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Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge

Lawrence Kramer - Music - 2023 - 324 pages
...and not coincidentally the condition of sympathy and imagination, too. As Donna Haraway has argued, The knowing self is partial in all its guises, never...finished, whole, simply there and original; it is always constituted and stitched together imperfectly, and therefore able to join with another, to see together...
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Women Writing Culture

Gary A. Olson, Elizabeth Hirsh - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 232 pages
...multiplicities." Because this self is "always constructed and stitched together imperfectly," it is "therefore able to join with another, to see together without claiming to be another." While the notion of self as protean does help to dissolve the problem of the colonial cyclopian gaze...
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Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality

Deepika Bahri, Mary Vasudeva - History - 2009 - 392 pages
...status can be disclosed.8 Donna Haraway's statement on "situated knowledges" is useful in this context: "The knowing self is partial in all its guises, never...with another, to see together without claiming to be another."9 The self that is created is neither whole nor free from the other: each recreates itself...
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Technoscience and Cyberculture

Stanley Aronowitz - Art - 1996 - 340 pages
...this volume. Yet, if we may harken back to Haraway one last time, cultural studies, like Haraway's "knowing self," "is partial in all its guises, never...with another, to see together without claiming to be another.1"* Cultural studies proceeds by way of a cutting-out and stitching-together of the various...
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