I love Donna J. Haraway. She uplifts me, from one part of myself into another, from inside of me out into the world and she inspires me to let the world in, as an act of reconciliation with existence. „To be one is always to become with many.“, writes Haraway. To evolve into the nature of things, being a body among other bodies. This is what breathing teaches us more than anything else: to become one with oneself is also to become with many.
„I think we learn to be worldly from grappling with, rather than generalizing from, the ordinary. I am a creature of the mud, not the sky. I am a biologist who has always found edification in the amazing abilities of slime to hold things in touch and to lubricate passages for living beings and their parts. I love the fact that human genomes can be found in only about 10 percent of all the cells that occupy the mundane space I call my body; the other 90 percent of the cells are filled with the genomes of bacteria, fungi, protists, and such, some of which play in a symphony necessary to my being alive at all, and some of which are hitching a ride and doing the rest of me, of us, no harm. I am vastly outnumbered by my tiny companions; better put, I become an adult human being in company with these tiny messmates. To be one is always to become with many.“
Source: Donna J. Haraway, „When Species Meet“, Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2007