# Donna Haraway [Wikipedia Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway) ( 1944 – ) ## Description American scholar of science and technology studies whose "A Cyborg Manifesto" (1985) reframed the boundary-crossing figure of the cyborg as a feminist, anti-essentialist alternative to organic wholeness, and whose later work on companion species and "staying with the trouble" extends that thinking into multispecies and ecological entanglement. ## Key Tags #theorist #posthumanism #feminist #critical-theory ## Essential Works - "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" (1985) - foundational essay reframing the cyborg as a figure against essentialist feminism and rigid human/animal/machine boundaries - *When Species Meet* (2008) - develops "companion species" thinking through human-animal entanglement - *Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene* (2016) - proposes multispecies "kin-making" as a response to ecological crisis ## Details Trained as a biologist before moving into history of science and feminist theory; taught for decades in the History of Consciousness program at UC Santa Cruz. Her work consistently dismantles clean boundaries — human/animal, organism/machine, nature/culture — in favor of situated, entangled knowledge, making her a central reference point for posthumanist and new-materialist theory. ### Concepts and Theories - [[Affirmative Posthumanism]] - the cyborg figure and companion-species thinking are foundational texts for posthumanist theory ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators - [[Karen Barad]] - Barad's agential realism explicitly extends Haraway's situated-knowledges and boundary-crossing feminist science studies ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements %% none yet %% ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." *Socialist Review*, 1985. Foundational statement of cyborg feminism. ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Schneider, Joseph. *Donna Haraway: Live Theory*. Continuum, 2005. Critical introduction to Haraway's work, from cyborg feminism through situated knowledges, with a new interview.