Donna Haraway, “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.

If science seeks total, objective, and abstract knowledge, then it is ignoring its own blind spots, irrelevancies, and biases. But if one can situate one’s knowledge as originating from a particular standpoint (I’m white, female, overeducated, middle-class, etc.) then one can acknowledge one’spartial knowledge of what there is to know… and my partial knowledge is relevant and interesting but only part of a bigger picture.

Vision is useful, she says, if we understand it as seeing from a body in a particular place. 

The solution, then, might mean acknowledging that no single eye (naked or not) can claim true objectivity – objectivity can only be approached by conversations among multiple subjective standpoints.

all seems not just mythically about the god trick of seeing everything from nowhere, but to have put the myth into ordinary practice. And like the god trick, the eye fucks the world to make techno-monsters.”