Situated Knowledges
In Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective, Haraway proposed a radical reframing of objectivity. Against the god trick — the fantasy of a view from nowhere that she identified as politically interested rather than neutral — she argued that the strongest knowledge is produced not by transcending perspective but by acknowledging its partiality and combining partial perspectives in ways that make their specificities visible. The framework has become, somewhat improbably, one of the most cited texts in contemporary AI ethics, because it provides the vocabulary for analyzing the specific partiality of the machine's gaze: what its training data includes, what it excludes, whose knowledge it carries, and whose it erases.
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The essay was published in Feminist Studies as Haraway's response to the late-1980s debate between feminist empiricism and postmodern skepticism. She refused both poles: the empiricist claim that better method