Donna haraway

Donna Haraway

By Ruby Del Real

  • Date of Birth

    Born on September 9, 1944 in Denver Colorado- Present.

  • Cyborg Manifesto

    Cyborg Manifesto
    Donna Haraway an American Professor Emerita in the history of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, brought to light A Cyborg Manifesto This essay was published in 1985, Here is where she theorized how the cyborg would break down the boundaries between humans and animals, physical and non-physical, and machine and man. The cyborg being a product from both fictionalized encryption and social reality.

  • Cyborg Manifesto

    In other words, cyborgs are a socially constructed hybrids of both technology and organisms. The reference to cyborgs helps her guide her mission of argument of the construction of one’s own consciousness in the respect of up and coming technology. The concept of the cyborg was outside of the boundaries as is and adding the notion of gender being changeable.

  • Cyborg Manifesto

    Expressing this idea of Being able to come out of gender norms was out of this world for this point in time. Haraway’s creativity within this essay allows women to express themselves anyway with literary acts and not giving them the sense that fitting in to gender norms or fitting in to a box of ideas to within society are necessary to be a part of something greater. (Stanford University)

  • Cyborg Manifesto

    Cyborg Manifesto
    Overall, Donna Haraway made a major in impact in the philosophy of Science by influencing feminism and out of the box thinking. Bringing to the table the idea of “how true is made” and how science is observed and created, “Haraway argued. The scientists in a laboratory don’t simply observe or conduct experiments on a cell, for instance, but co-create what a cell is by seeing, measuring, naming and manipulating it” (Weigel).

  • References

    References
    Stanford University. Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto. n.d. 8 March 2020. https://web.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/critstudies/sunny.html. Weigel, Moira. Feminist cyborg scholar Donna Haraway: ‘The disorder of our era isn’t necessary'. 20 Jun 2019. 8 march 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/donna-haraway-interview-cyborg-manifesto-post-truth.

  • Donna Haraway. Cyborgs, Dogs and Companion Species 2000

    In this short video Donna Haraway is a guest lecturer at EGS. Its a very interesting video but it is the first out of nine.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxHIKmMI70