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From Haraway's Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science

. . . the history of science appears as a narrative about the history of technical and social means to produce the facts.  The facts themselves are types of stories, of testimony to experience.  But the provocation of experience requires an elaborate technology—including physical tools, an accessible tradition of interpretation, and specific social relations.  Not just anything can emerge as fact; not just anything can be seen or done, and so told.  Scientific practice may be considered a kind of storytelling practice—a rule governed, constrained, historically changing craft of narrating the history of nature.  (4)

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