Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years a
go, Donna Haraway s Cyborg Manifesto is even more relevant today, when the divis
ions that she so eloquently challenges of human and machine but also of gender,
class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and location are increasingly complex. The su
bsequent Companion Species Manifesto, which further questions the human nonhuman
disjunction, is no less urgently needed in our time of environmental crisis and
profound polarization.
"Manifestly Haraway" brings together these momentous ma
nifestos to expose the continuity and ramifying force of Haraway s thought, whos
e significance emerges with engaging immediacy in a sustained conversation betwe
en the author and her long-term friend and colleague Cary Wolfe. Reading cyborgs
and companion species through and with each other, Haraway and Wolfe join in a
wide-ranging exchange on the history and meaning of the manifestos in the contex
t of biopolitics, feminism, Marxism, human nonhuman relationships, making kin, l
iterary tropes, material semiotics, the negative way of knowing, secular Catholi
cism, and more.
