Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto

ISBN-13: 9781912453566 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 96 str.

Rebecca Pohl

Opis

Haraway's `Cyborg Manifesto' is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion a socialist, postmodern, and anti-identitarian politics. Until Haraway's work, few feminists had turned to theorizing science and technology and thus her work quite literally changed the terms of the debate. This article continues to be seen as hugely influential in the field of feminism, particularly postmodern, materialist, and scientific strands. It is also a precursor to cyberfeminism and posthumanism and perhaps anticipates the development of digital humanities.

Spis treści

Ways in to the Text  Who is Donna Haraway?  What does A Cyborg Manifesto Say?  Why does A Cyborg Manifesto Matter?  Section 1: Influences  Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context  Module 2: Academic Context  Module 3: The Problem  Module 4: The Author's Contribution  Section 2: Ideas  Module 5: Main Ideas  Module 6: Secondary Ideas  Module 7: Achievement  Module 8: Place in the Author's Work  Section 3: Impact  Module 9: The First Responses  Module 10: The Evolving Debate  Module 11: Impact and Influence Today  Module 12: Where Next?  Glossary of Terms  People Mentioned in the Text  Works Cited

O autorze

Before joining English, American Studies and Creative Writing in 2014 as Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Dr Rebecca Pohl completed my PhD at Manchester in 2013. Previously she studied in Potsdam, Berlin and London, and was junior lecturer at the University of Stuttgart.