A Cyborg Manifesto - Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
| Author | Donna J. Haraway |
|---|---|
| Published | 1985 |
| Format | Article |
TL;DR — Haraway’s 1985 essay proposing the cyborg — part machine, part organism — as an ironic political myth for socialist-feminism in an age of information technology.
Donna Haraway’s essay, first published in 1985 and reprinted many times. This copy is the essay as it appears in Manifestly Haraway (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), extracted from a library e-book platform.
The essay calls itself “an ironic political myth” faithful to feminism, socialism and materialism. Haraway uses the cyborg — a hybrid of machine and organism — to argue that the boundaries between human and animal, organism and machine, and physical and non-physical had already broken down, and that feminist politics should stop resting on claims of a shared natural identity. Sections include the “informatics of domination”, the “homework economy” of the integrated circuit, and coalition built on affinity rather than identity. It closes with the line that she would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.
What it is: a canonical text of feminist theory and science-and-technology studies, widely taught. This copy is an extract from an in-print book.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
88 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.