ABSTRACT
Donna Haraway is a prominent feminist and cultural theorist best known for “A Cyborg Manifesto,” first published in 1985. Haraway’s depiction of contemporary America makes it seem like a technological nightmare, a dystopia that has not yet quite revealed itself as a dystopia but keeps moving faster and faster in that direction. “A Cyborg Manifesto” was originally published in the Socialist Review in 1985. Its full original title gives a clear exposition of what it is about: “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s.” Written in a highly energetic and playful but also rigorous and sometimes challenging style, it mixes registers, combines philosophy with popular culture and the language of contemporary high-tech science, and draws on a wide array of sources, from biologists to economists to philosophers, science fiction writers, and other feminist theorists. The manifesto was conceived as an intervention in debates about feminist theory and practice during the 1980s.
