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“Metaphors into Hardware: Harry Harlow and the Technology of Love” Donna Haraway

Dive deep into Donna Haraway's analysis of Harry Harlow's groundbreaking studies on love and attachment, exploring narratives of self-birthing, sadism, and the gaze in the laboratory and cinema. Discover the hidden subtext behind Harlow's monkey experiments and his scientific claims to fame.

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“Metaphors into Hardware: Harry Harlow and the Technology of Love” Donna Haraway

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  1. “Metaphors into Hardware: Harry Harlow and the Technology of Love”Donna Haraway Prepared by: Dr. Kay Picart

  2. Guide Question: • According to Haraway, what stories does Harlow’s award-winning science tell us?

  3. Discussion Questions: • Describe how Harlow’s conceptual birthing of surrogate mother constitutes a “self-birthing.” • What role did Margaret Harlow play in this parthenogenetic birth?

  4. Guide Question • Haraway writes: “Reinforcing the heroic masculinist narrative of self-birthing is the forceps of sadism.” What does “sadism” mean in this context?

  5. Discussion Question: • Using Teresa de Lauretis & Laura Mulvey, how does the politics of the gaze in the Harlow laboratory parallel the politics of the gaze of Hollywood cinema?

  6. Guide Question: • According to Haraway, what was the deeper subtext to Harlow’s experimentation on monkeys?

  7. Guide Question • What were Harlow’s scientific claims to fame?

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