There is no ‘view from nowhere’. All knowledge is partial and located; objectivity means owning your position.
- +Fits Feminist Epistemology, Constructivist Epistemology
- –Tension with Positivist Epistemology
The longer story
Haraway's 'situated knowledges' demolishes the view from nowhere. All knowledge comes from somewhere, someone, some body. But this isn't relativism—it's responsibility. If your knowledge is situated, you're accountable for your position. Haraway's cyborg—neither wholly natural nor wholly technological—prefigured how we now live entangled with machines. For research, Haraway demands you declare your position rather than pretending neutrality, and recognise that objectivity is achieved through acknowledged partiality, not denied perspective.