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Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway was born in Denver, Colorado on Septmeber 06, 1944. -
College Adventures (Colorado and Paris)
She studied zoology and philosophy at The Colorado College, where she received a Boettcher Foundation scholarship. Having studied in Paris under a Fulbright scholarship, she completed her PhD in Biology at Yale in 1972 with a dissertation entitled “The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in 20th-Century Developmental Biology”, traversing the fields—and departments—of biology, philosophy, and history of science and medicine (2018). -
"A Manifesto for Cyborgs"
Haraway’s most famous essay was published in 1985: “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s” (Socialist Review, no. 80); it has become a regular in the art world and somewhat of a cult classic. It also helped with the Feminism movement. -
Notable Works and Youtube Video
A Cyborg Manifesto 1984
Primates Visions 1989
Siminans, Cyborgs and Women 1991
Modest_Witness 1997
When Species Meet 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9gis7-Jads -
Resources
“Donna Haraway.” The European Graduate School EST. 1994, https://egs.edu/faculty/donna-haraway. “Donna Haraway.” Monoskop, https://monoskop.org/Donna_Haraway. Lee, Shannon. “Who On Earth Is Donna Haraway? Why the Art World Can't Get Enough of the Ecofeminist Cyborg Enthusiast.” Artspace, 6 Oct. 2018, https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/in_depth/who-on-earth-is-donna-haraway-why-the-art-world-cant-get-enough-of-the-posthuman-ecofeminist-and-55676.
