ABSTRACT
The work of University of California, Santa Cruz graduates like Katie King, T. V. Reed, and Caren Kaplan suggests one possible future direction of work on Donna Haraway’s manifesto. Their books all explore more recent technological developments and their relationship to economics and social experience: the expansion of networks and the role of the internet in everyday life as well as the coming of drones in both military and “civilian” contexts. A significant essay by an emerging scholar is Anna Feigenbaum’s “From cyborg feminism to drone feminism: Remembering women’s anti-nuclear activisms.” “A Cyborg Manifesto” is a stylish, serious, committed, and intellectually challenging piece of writing that has had a remarkable reception history. Since the economic, technological, and social dynamics that Haraway describes in the manifesto have not only persisted but intensified and accelerated—from a certain perspective, at least—her analysis of the emerging conditions of lived experience in the 1980s is pertinent.
