A Cyborg Manifesto

"A Cyborg Manifesto" is an essay written by Donna Haraway and published in 1985 in the Socialist Review. In it, the concept of the cyborg represents a rejection of rigid boundaries, notably those separating "human" from "animal" and "human" from "machine." Haraway writes: "The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust."^[1]

The "Manifesto" challenges traditional notions of feminism, particularly feminism that focuses on identity politics, and instead encourages coalition through affinity. Haraway uses the concept of a cyborg to represent the plasticity of identity and to highlight the limitations of socially imposed identities; the "Manifesto" is considered a major milestone in the development of feminist posthumanist theory.^[2]

Given its composition in the mid-1980s, the "Manifesto" also includes many references to the political context of the period, including the geopolitical tensions of the late Cold War, the anti-nuclear protests of the Livermore Action Group, the "Star Wars" missile defense initiative, and the rise of the new right in the United States.

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[2] Tolliver, Nicholas D. (2022). "Cyborg Liberation: Donna Haraway's Cyborg Feminism as an Emancipatory Model of Identity". 20 (1): 141–153. doi:10.7916/mar4-1k48. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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