Ada Lovelace Day: Donna Haraway
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
My hero of the day is Donna Haraway.
I think I first encountered Donna Haraway’s work in about 1996. I was studying up on Actor-Network Theory as part of an effort to get into an exchange program to Keele University (John Law had taught at Keele, and that’s how I got into ANT), and somehow that led me to theCyborg Manifesto. Once at Keele, Primate Visions was required (for a class about society and nature with Gordon Fyfe, I think).
Haraway’s work has really been important to me. She’s helped me to make sense of the interstitial spots between technology and bodies, between people and animals. So for Ada Lovelace day, I celebrate Donna Haraway!
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Cell phones are not annoying in and of themselves, it is the abuse of cell phones that should be outlawed.
Unfortunately most people are too inconsiderate simply by nature to understand that a loud annoying ringtone or cell yell irritates everyone in their vicinity. They ruin it for everyone.
Until basic manners catch up with technology an outright cell phone ban is the only solution.
that's a buncha bull.
either you embrace the gizmos or yr patrons find elsewhere to be, man.
the gizmos are here to stay. yr library may not be.
and if it's human rudeness yr trying to change, hey, you'll be trying for a real, real long time.
good luck.
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