<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear -empyre-,</div><div><br></div><div>I am pleased to welcome
Joan Haran into the conversation on Magic and Technology today, to talk
about the overlaps and tensions in the work of Donna Haraway and
Starhawk. I met Joan this summer in California, and was inspired to
learn how she brought these two into conversation at UC Santa Cruz in
2017. Perhaps, she points out, there may be more similarities between
them than differences -- despite Haraway's declaration in the Cyborg
Manifesto that she would rather be a cyborg than a goddess. Of
particular importance to Joan is how imagination and science can shape
narratives of the near future. <a href="https://creativeecologies.ucsc.edu/a-public-conversation-with-donna-haraway-and-starhawk-magic-figuration-speculative-fiction-as-calls-to-action/" target="_blank">https://creativeecologies.ucsc.edu/a-public-conversation-with-donna-haraway-and-starhawk-magic-figuration-speculative-fiction-as-calls-to-action/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Joan Haran (UK) she/her/hers, or they/their/theirs</div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Joan Haran is an Honorary Research Fellow at
Cardiff University, working at the intersections of Cultural Studies,
Science and Technology Studies and Feminist Studies. Her most recent –
and still ongoing – research project, <i>Imaginactivism,</i> about the entanglement of speculative fiction and activism, was supported by a <span lang="EN-US">Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship based at the University of Oregon and Cardiff University. Her monograph <i>Genomic Fictions: Genes, Gender and Genre</i> is forthcoming from the University of Wales Press.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Warmly,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">M</span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>--<br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,204,204)"><a href="http://beforebefore.net" target="_blank">beforebefore.net</a></span><br><div>--</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>