Word: stolonic
This word is both powerful and empowering in several different ways. First, to use the biological property of grass as both a metaphor and a model to connect science and feminist study is a great way to break the boundary and to think (or start to think) that there are no boundaries anymore and everything is connected in some ways perceivable or no perceivable depending on the scale of observation. Also, it is empowering in the way that the once marginalized, erased, and ignored beings that do not fall into any categories and sometimes would be explained as "experimental error" or "outlier" have a rightful place in this fluid onto-epistemological model where beings can simultaneously be one(individual) and a whole.
Sentence: "It matters which cuts are enacted: different cuts enact different materialized becomings" (Roy, 75)
The sentence reminds me of the "double-slit experiment" that physicists used to determine whether light was a wave or particles. Instead, they would observe that light can be 1) a wave 2) made up of particles, and 3) both a wave and particles depended on where or when the physicist stop the experiment. It is a reminder that maybe there are no divisions or the divisions are just assigned arbitrarily because of humans' own biological limitations.
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"Visions of biotechnological futures saved me that day. Very early on in my makings as a feminist scientist-cum-cyborg, I realized that I was going to face difficulties in being both "bionic" and "brown" - two of the many stem cells, or material-semiotic "objects of knowledge" that have since come to form my conception of technoscientific body. Which figurations a feminist scientist brings into closer proximity depends on the stem cells and sticky threads that have come together to bring forward that dilemma. So being" bionic" and "brown" can be thought of as two stem cells that I acknowledge as playing a part in constructing my reality. As Haraway explains it, each stem cell is comprised of a "knot of knowledge-making practices" formed by such sticky threads as 'industry and commerce, popular culture, social struggles, psychoanalytic formations, bodily history,' and more" (143).
First, it is interesting here when she talked about bionic she implied Bionic Woman instead of The Six Million Dollar Man which are more often referenced in the scholarly material that discuss the popular culture image of the cyborg. Therefore, cyborg here is situated in the "sticky threads" of race, gender, and technology. Also, I love the Haraway quote which is using scientific languages/metaphors to explain the social science bits in science and that knowledge production can happen in these unexpected intersections between any disciplines no matter how unrelated they seem to be.
