ABSTRACT
Donna Haraway's “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” (1985) has become a legend of late 20th-century scholarship. Cited thousands of times and translated into a dozen languages, it has achieved monumental status, especially when juxtaposed against statistics from the Citation Index indicating that well over 90 percent of articles in the humanities are not cited even once. 1 While Haraway's own interests in the last few years have turned away from the cyborg and toward companion species, the project she outlined in “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” remains vitally important, perhaps even more so than in 1985, the original publication date. The issues have morphed in significant ways, but the ethical drive and social commitment that galvanized readers then were never more necessary. With the hindsight of twenty years later, the wonder is not that the article appears dated but rather that it remains remarkably prescient in many of its concerns.
