I am arguing for politics and epistemologies of location, positioning, and situating, where partiality and not universality is the condition of being heard to make rational knowledge claims. (1/2) — Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges, p. 261

The rise of philosophy itself can be interpreted, I think, as a response to the breakdown of the closed society and its magical beliefs. (1/3) — Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 260

An oracular irrationalism has established (especially with Bergson and the majority of German philosophers and intellectuals) the habit of ignoring or at best deploring the existence of such an inferior being as a rationalist. (1/3) — Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 584

a rational analysis of the consequences of a decision does not make the decision rational; the consequences do not determine our decision; it is always we who decide. (1/3) — Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 588

“Pragmatism cuts across this transcendental/empirical [platonic/positivist] distinction by questioning the common presupposition that there is an invidious distinction to be drawn between kinds of truths. (1/5) — Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xvi

..."reality" cannot be used to explain why a statement becomes a fact, since it is only after it has become a fact that the effect of reality is obtained. (1/2) — Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 205

if I am here, in such a large auditorium, in such a place, and with such an audience, it is to ask myself whether psycho-analysis is a science, and to examine the question with you. — Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 7

From one perspective, a cyborg world is about the final imposition of a grid of control on the planet, about the final abstraction embodied in a Star Wars apocalypse waged in the name of defence, about the final appropriation of women's... (1/3) — Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 206

Facts and artefacts do not correspond respectively to true and false statements. Rather, statements lie along a continuum according to the extent to which they refer to the conditions of their construction. (1/3) — Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 200

But where is this unconscious that is supposed to bring us to the truth, to a divine truth? they ask sarcastically. […] Freud sees no objection to this. The unconscious, he tells us, is not the dream. (1/2) — Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 37

The last beachheads of uniqueness have been polluted if not turned into amusement parks - language, tool use, social behaviour, mental events, nothing really convincingly settles the separation of human and animal. (1/3) — Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 202

I found that those of my friends who were admirers of Marx, Freud, and Adler, were impressed by a number of points common to these theories, and especially by their apparent explanatory power. (1/8) — Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, p. 56

But in the Heraclitean philosophy one of the less commendable characteristics of historicism manifests itself, namely, an over-emphasis upon change, combined with the complementary belief in an inexorable and immutable law of... (1/2) — Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 46

The project does not reject technology (or science, or rationalism – ideas often understood as patriarchal constructs), but positions it both as part of the warp and weft of our everyday lives and as one potential sphere of activist intervention. (1/4) — Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 9

I say somewhere that the unconscious is the discourse of the Other. Now, the discourse of the Other that is to be realized, that of the unconscious, is not beyond the closure, it is outside. (1/2) — Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 131

The problem of precarious survival helps us see what is wrong. Precarity is a state of acknowledgment of our vulnerability to others. (1/4) — Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 543

Pragmatism is the philosophical counterpart of literary modernism, the kind of literature which prides itself on its autonomy and novelty rather than its truthfulness to experience or its discovery of pre-existing significance. — Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 154

Hegel, we have seen, teaches that everything is in flux, even essences. Essences and Ideas and Spirits develop; and their development is, of course, self-moving and dialectical. (1/9) — Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 365

When the notion of knowledge as representation goes, then the notion of inquiry as split into discrete sectors with discrete subject matters goes. The lines between novels, newspaper articles, and sociological research get blurred. (1/2) — Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 205

The religious community is founded on what would not be too inadequately described by calling it a myth. (1/5) — Jacques Lacan, Religions and the Real

Consider, indeed, the question of what’s left. Given the effectiveness of state and capitalist devastation of natural landscapes, we might ask why anything outside their plans is alive today. (1/14) — Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 413

The puzzling attitude towards science would be explicable if it were being treated as sacred, and as such, something to be kept at a respectful distance. (1/5) — David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 47

Costumam-nos dizer: vocês não compreendem nada. Édipo não é papai-mamãe, é o simbólico, a lei, o acesso à cultura, é a finitude do sujeito, a “falta-a-ser que é a vida”. (1/2) — Vladimir Safatle, Maneiras de transformar mundos, p. 86

There is no better synonym for “rational” than “critical”. — Karl Popper, Unended Quest, p. 103

The idea that a transsexual person must necessarily be heterosexual, together with the grotesque, insistent question ‘Post-op trans or pre-op trans?’ that some of you are doubtless asking yourselves as you listen to me, are the result... (1/3) — Paul B. Preciado, Can the Monster Speak?, p. 44

Xenofeminism does not deny that there is a biological stratum to embodied reality[...]. What is does dispute, however, is the idea that this stratum is immutable or fixed simply because it is biological. (1/4) — Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 17

The general opinion was that anything may happen in hysteria; hysterics found no credit whatsoever. (1/3) — Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 44

But the subject is there to rediscover where it was — I anticipate — the real. (1/2) — Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 45

For a time I was suspicious of the communists, mainly because of what my friend Arndt had told me about them. But in the spring of 1919 I, together with a few friends, was converted by their propaganda. (1/28) — Karl Popper, Unended Quest

Derrida, then, has little to tell us about language, but a great deal to tell us about philosophy. (1/11) — Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 94

Feminisms and Marxisms have run aground on Western epistemological imperatives to construct a revolutionary subject from the perspective of a hierarchy of oppressions and/or a latent position of moral superiority, innocence, and greater... (1/2) — Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 236

Matsutake make it possible for host trees to live in poor soils, without fertile humus. In turn, they are nourished by the trees. This transformative mutualism has made it impossible for humans to cultivate matsutake. (1/5) — Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 714

One can see Derrida's attempt to "deconstruct the greatest totality" as an attempt to get rid of the notion that language is an attempt to represent something nonlinguistic. (1/6) — Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 100

Many feminists have resisted moves like those Butler recommends, for fear of losing a concept of agency for women as the concept of the subject withers under the attack on core identities and their constitutive fictions. (1/3) — Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 179

Human bodies achieve a determinate form early in our lives. Barring injury, we’ll never be all that different in shape than we were as adolescents. We can’t grow extra limbs, and we’re stuck with the one brain we’ve each got. (1/6) — Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 800

Kuhn and Dewey suggest we give up the notion of science traveling towards an end called "correspondence with reality" and instead say merely that a given vocabulary works better than another for a given purpose. (1/6) — Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 194

Technology is as social as society is technical. — Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 11

But immediately someone might object that this is not a mistake, for does it not benefit addicts, homosexuals, or so-called criminals to be regarded as “sick”? To be sure, such labeling might benefit some people, sometimes. (1/3) — Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 75

...the notion that we know a priori that nature and man are distinct sorts of objects is a mistake. It is a confusion between ontology and morals. (1/2) — Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 204

The greatest principle of all is that nobody, whether male or female, should be without a leader. (1/4) — Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 39

Immortality and omnipotence are not our goals. But we could use some enforceable, reliable accounts of things not reducible to power moves and agonistic, high status games of rhetoric or to scientistic, positivist arrogance. (1/3) — Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges, p. 251

But although they knew that I had written many (unpublished) papers, none of them had encouraged me to publish my ideas. Gomperz had indeed impressed upon me the fact that publishing any philosophical ideas was hopelessly difficult. (1/9) — Karl Popper, Unended Quest, p. 98

I hope to convey the idea that there is nothing obvious, natural or compelling about seeing mathematics as a special case which will forever defy the scrutiny of the social scientist. (1/2) — David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 84

We could then say that rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to critical arguments and to learn from experience. (1/6) — Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 579

And as a biologist, [Aristotle] assumes that sensible things carry potentially within themselves the seeds, as it were, of their final states, or of their essences. (1/5) — Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 314

“In such a culture, criteria would be seen as the pragmatist sees them -as temporary resting-places constructed for specific utilitarian ends. (1/8) — Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xli

[a tendency which stands in the way of adoption a critical dualism] is based upon our fear of admitting to ourselves that the responsibility for our ethical decisions is entirely ours and cannot be shifted to anybody else;... (1/3) — Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 120

… If historians should desire to show the cumulative character of mathematics then their interpretive apparatus will enable them to do so. (1/4) — David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 129

The meaning of the term 'polyhedron' was in need of decision, for it was quite indeterminate in the shadowy area revealed by the counterexamples. It had to be created or negotiated. (1/4) — David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 151

since the book was published in a mainly positivistic series edited by Frank and Schlick, this aspect of Logik der Forschung had some curious consequences. (1/6) — Karl Popper, Unended Quest, p. 104