The God Trick

Excerpts from Donna Haraway’s “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” 

The problem:

A gaze from nowhere:

The God Trick:

Situated Knowledges:

Subjugated visions see more, and see more clearly:

Recognizing situated knowledges as preferable to anarchism and relativism, which share a similar view from nowhere as positivism:

Donna Haraway. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective”; Feminist Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3. (Autumn, 1988), pp. 575-599.