Citat - Ett alternativ till relativism

The alternative to relativism
is partial, locatable, critical knowledges
sustaining the possibility
of webs of connections
called solidarity
in politics
and shared conversations
in epistemology

Relativism
is a way of being nowhere
while claiming to be everywhere equally
The 'equality' of positioning
is a denial of responsibility
and critical enquiry

Relativism
is the perfect mirror twin
of totalizing in the ideologies of objectivity -
both deny the stakes in location
embodiment and partial perspective -
both make it impossible to see well

Relativism and totalization
are both 'god-tricks'
promising vision from everywhere and nowhere
equally and fully
the common myth in rhetorics
surrounding Science

ur: Donna Haraway 1988) “Situated Knowledges. The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of a Partial Perspective” Feminist Studies 14(3) p. 178