MANIFESTLY HARAWAY

Electrifying provocative and controversial when first published thirty years ago Donna Haraway s Cyborg Manifesto is even more relevant today when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges of human and machine but also of gender class race ethnicity sexuality and location are increasingly complex The subsequent 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 manifestos to expose the continuity and ramifying force of Haraway s thought whose significance emerges with engaging immediacy in a sustained conversation between 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 context of biopolitics feminism Marxism human nonhuman relationships making kin literary tropes material semiotics the negative way of knowing secular Catholicism and more The conversation ends by revealing the early stages of Haraway s Chthulucene Manifesto in tension with the teleologies of the doleful Anthropocene an