Donna Haraway response to Stengers

7:20. “The openness or dare of what has been called speculative realism.” Wow. SR is really in the lexicon now.

7:22. Whitehead’s organism is not an organism in the traditional/romantic sense. It’s not a big organic whole, but an infection between numerous disconnected parts.

7:22. The patience of Earth is at an end when it comes to human ways. We should respond not with fear, but with some sort of new trust.

7:24. Maybe novelty isn’t what we’re looking for, even though I (Haraway) love process philosophy, appreciate the fact that 90% of our bodies are not human cells, that we are infected with the alien, etc.

7:25. The abstractions of process philosophy may need some tinkering.

7:25. Dingoes are the charismatic macro-fauna of the Australian state [nice phrase!], yet an effort is being made to exterminate them.

7:30. Our time is a great time of genocides.

7:30. Christians who want to address global warming with something called “creation care”, and the scientists who sneer at them. Haraway seems not fond of either group.

7:32. We now have technical-biological capabilities to generate new organisms without hetero-normativity, in ways that queer theory has never even dreamed of.

7:33. No carping, critical, scolding, postcolonial multiculturalism will help us anymore. [Hear, hear.] (Haraway gets on rhetorical micro-rolls like this quite often.)

7:34. Isabelle Stengers has learned a great deal form the abstractions of the neo-pagan witches.

7:35. Let’s make Heidegger not so poor in world. (*laughing*)

7:36. Owning up to knowing something is the only way to be a serious person. [Great line.]

My first time seeing Haraway. General impression: forceful and impressive, no surprise she’s a star. Would like to have her as a department colleague.