A Cyborg Manifesto
by Donna Jeanne Haraway · first published 1985
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…feminism on this particular forum, but I just want to say the connection here to Donna Haraway was a surprise and delight. Any one open to that world at all would behoove themselves to check her out. "The Cyborg Manifesto" is the one everyone knows, but I recently finished "Living with the Trouble" and can't recommend it enough!
on “Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?” ↗ever read donna haraway's cyborg manifesto? :)
…Mary Wollstonecraft is already listed under "modern philosophy", as is "The Subjection of Women" by Mill, and Thomson's "A Defense of Abortion" is under "bioethics". I would think that such works as "A Cyborg Manifesto" by Donna Haraway, "Anarchism" by Emma Goldman, or "Gyn/Ecology" by Mary Daly are at least as worthy of being listed here as "The Book of Five Rings" or Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy".
on “List of important publications in philosophy” ↗I hadn't seen that Feynman quote before, but I discovered then when reading Donna Harraway's books (Cyborg Manifesto, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse, Primate Visions). The criticism was """Haraway's work has been criticized for being "methodologically vague"[39] and using noticeably opaque…
on “Transformer Attention is off by one” ↗"A Cyborg Manifesto" (Donna Haraway, 1985) makes the argument that we are already cyborgs. I think I agree, at least with that point. We're extremely intertwined with technology. - We might be born from cells mashed together…
on “Humans as Cyborgs” ↗A personal reflection on the retrospective of Nathalie Magnan (1956–2016) — artist, hacktivist, and key figure in cyberfeminism. Magnan translated Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto into French, made documentaries about early internet culture (Internautes, 1995), produced tactical media, and tirelessly connected hackers, queer activists, and artists across networks. The piece is…
on “Magnanrama, a Cyberfeminist Exhibition” ↗…Pentagon’s targeting systems. Ah remember when people had hope that Silicon Valley wasn't just gonna end up being another arm of the military industrial complex? I recently revisited Donna Haraway's cyborg manifesto[0] and was struck by how much hope there was for Silicon Valley being something different [0] https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/under...
on “AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying” ↗Donna Harraway's A Cyborg Manifesto is/was a widly read text in media studies. it could be one way many crative types are sure to have heard of Ghost in shell.
on “How the New Yorker Fell into the “Weird Japan” Trap” ↗