“There It Is Again”. On Objects, Technologies, Science, and the Times

Abstract

Materialist feminism, since its start in the late 1980’s (see for instance Haraway D Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies 14(3): 575–99, 1988), has been occupied with the questions of science and technology. The concepts accepted, the methodologies applied, the representations that (seemingly and unseemingly) dominated its narratives, have been critically examined ever since. Especially today, as the ecological crises are becoming such an important field of study in academia, it is of fundamental importance to ask ourselves th key question ‘how matter comes to matter’ and to rethink, in what way the politics of modernity and its white, male and upper class assumptions of normality, are still at the heart of todays the scientific agenda. Of course, these agendas are blured, complex and do not easily reveal their preferences. Living in 2019, an age in which the blood of Uranus has polluted mother Earth (Gaia) like never before, the furies of materialist thinking demand us to search for modernities conditions for truth and to see in what way we need to change life as a whole. And let us not start with the Subject, as we did this since 1968, but with the Object, the starting point of science.