Donna Haraway reads ~ ‘The National Geographic’ on primates

Donna Haraway Reads ‘The National Geographic’ on Primates. from Paper Tiger TV on Vimeo.

How does the “cultured” gorilla, i.e. Koko, come to represent universal man? Author and cultural critic Donna Haraway untangles the web of meanings, tracing what gets to count as nature, for whom and when, and how much it costs to produce nature at a particular moment in history for a particular group of people. A feminist journey through the anthropological junglescape. Haraway is a leading thinker about people’s love and hate relationship with machines. Her ideas have sparked an explosion of debate in areas as diverse as primatology, philosophy, and developmental biology.

1987, TRT: 28 minutes, Episode 126