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patrilineal tracings of primate biologists feels a little suspect to me; like her configuration of the field of biology itself as reproducing a familial-esque patriarchical relation of father-children; i think that's the joke, that she's treating these human scientists with the flat presumptuousness with which scientists have historically traced out families of primates? but it's hard to tell how into it i am

finished P1 "Nature as a System of Production and Reproduction" and feeling that haraway is dense but not unclear! pleasant surprise. primatology as a troubled area that breaks the nature vs. civilization binary is so cool. love the revelation of the transition from a biology interested in personal development (controlling the individual) to one interested in systems development (population control)