# Location

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## title: Location subtitle: Cyberfeminism

## About the Concept

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> Karen Barad present us the particular view of Donna Haraway about location,  
> emphasising that her notion of “situated” does not conflate with the specification  
> of one’s social location along a set of axes referencing one’s identity).

Situated knowledge is not merely about knowing or seeing from somewhere  
(as in having a perspective) but about taking account of how the specific  
prosthetic embodiment of the technologically enhanced visualizing apparatus  
matters to practices of knowing.  
And if her use of the “@” sign in Modest\_Witness can be understood as a mark of the specificity of location,  
then we can conclude that location is not equivalent to the local, but neither  
does the globality of the Net imply universality but rather points to its  
distributed and layered nature (1997, 121): “The ‘@’ and ‘.’ are the title’s  
chief signifiers of the Net. An ordinary e-mail address specifies where the  
addressee is in a highly capitalized, transnationally sustained, machine  
language-mediated communications network that gives byte to the euphemisms of  
the ‘global village.’ Dependent upon a densely distributed array of local and  
regional nodes, e-mail is one of a powerful set of recent technologies that  
materially produce what is so blithely called ‘global culture.’ E-mail is one  
of the passage points — both distributed and obligatory — through  
which identities ebb and flow in the Net of technoscience” (Haraway 1997, 4);

## Sources

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[\_Haraway\_Donna\_J\_Modest\_Witness\_Second\_Millennium\_1997][1] Routledge; 1 edition (January 17, 1997)  
ISBN-10: 9780415912457

[1] /library/Donna HARAWAY - J\_Modest\_Witness\_Second\_Millennium\_1997.pdf

## Tree of Significance

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SYNONYM  
: distributed, situated

ANTONYM  
: fixed

HYPERNYM  
: flow, apparatus

HYPONYM  
: identity