ABSTRACT
“A Cyborg Manifesto” was a phenomenally successful and influential work of cultural theory. The relevance of the manifesto to contemporary political debates has partly to do with the fact that Donna Haraway engages with the complex interactions between race, sex, class, and sexuality in the context of an accelerating relationship between machine technology and people’s everyday lived experience. During the late 1960s, Haraway became more politically active in the anti-war movement and lived in an activist commune in New Haven, Connecticut. At Johns Hopkins, Haraway met and began a relationship with Rusten Hogness; they have lived together since that point. In 1977, Haraway and Hogness, together with Miller and his friend Nick Paulina, bought land in Healdsburg, a small town in northern California. Haraway mentions the Livermore Action Group, an anti-nuclear activist group based in California that engaged in civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action.
