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This picture is from the European Graduate School Website.
These are full text articles, transcripts or substantial excerpts of Haraway's work available on line.
- Alpha Bitches on Line: The Dog Genome for the Next Genderation - Audio Archive
- From Cyborgs to Companion Species: Dogs, People, and Technoculture - Webcast
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Birth of the Kennel:
A lecture by Donna Haraway
August 2000 - European Graduate School
- Parvis Lecture: When Species Meet - Webcast
- Cyborg Manifesto - Full text of the Cyborg Manifesto; includes graphic of Simians, Cyborgs and Women cover.
- Cyborg Manifesto - PDF format
- Ironic Dream of a Common Language (early version of Cyborg Manifesto)
- Short Lecture at European Graduate School (2000)
- The Promise of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others - From Grossbert, Nelson, and Treichler, _Cultural Studies_ (Routledge, 1992).
- Reading Buchi Emecheta - Version of essay published in Simians, Cyborgs and Women from Inscriptions 3/4
- www.doggery.org -
Haraway's site for her canine companions
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Photo from 4th European Feminist
Research Conference
Donna Haraway is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she teaches feminist theory and science studies. She is also an affiliated faculty member in the Women's Studies, Anthropology and Environmental Studies Departments at UCSC. Dr. Haraway is the author of Crystals, Fabrics and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology (Yale University Press, 1976), Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (Routledge, 1989; Verso,1992), Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (Routledge,1991; Free Association Books, 1991) and Modest_Witness @Second_Millennium. FemaleMan(c) Meets OncoMouse (New York and London: Routledge, 1997).
Haraway was born in Denver in 1944 and attended Catholic schools. With the aid of a Boettcher Foundation scholarship, she majored in zoology and philosophy at The Colorado College and also fulfilled the requirements for an English major. She graduated in 1966, studied philosophies of evolution in Paris for a year on a Fulbright and then went to the Biology Department at Yale, where she earned a Ph.D. in 1972 for an interdisciplinary dissertation on the functions of metaphor in shaping research in developmental biology in the twentieth century. She has taught at the University of Hawaii and The Johns Hopkins University and has been at UCSC since 1980.
(Note: This biography was shamelessly stolen from the website for the Cultures in the 21st Century: Conflicts and Convergences, 1999, A Symposium Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of The Colorado College. This website has several transcripts for the symposium and is worth a visit.)
I have admired Donna Haraway's work for many years. She has influenced my own thinking and my own scholarly perspective. I believe that many theorists misunderstand her writing and overemphasize the "chrome" (Stallabras 1993) of her cyborg metaphor while minimizing the significance of race, power relations, political economy, and "nature," the environment, or the biological. In other words, I think people have fetishized the cyborg and overlooked the most significant argument she makes about the cyborg's promise to help us reinvent politics. Despite my belief, I am also fascinated with the chrome, especially given my interest in cyberculture and the internet.
With that said, this page is an "Ode to Donna." When I first began this page, it was a huge task and I felt it was fairly complete. That was in 1996 at the "dawn" of the net era, or the time when the net was made accessible and attractive to the general public. I updated it regular. Eventually, though, I couldn't keep up with it. Now, it is hopelessly out of date, and it will be stale forever. Cyberstudies, which some folks even call cyborg anthropology, has exploded and interest in Haraway has matched that explosion. Some even say it incited that interest. And so, like everything that goes up on the net today, this page decays before it even hits the FTP program.
In moving from SVDLTD.COM to Voxygen.net, I did update the existing links, erased dead ones, added several new ones, and hunted for relocated ones. Many of the links I removed from the abstract section were lost because the articles actually have been published somewhere. That's nice to see. The number of trivial references to Haraway surprised me and made updating difficult. I dropped the press release section from SVDLTD since her book on dogs already hit the bookstores some time ago. That section was inspired by my excitement over her new project. I'm such a groupie! After much surfing to update this page, I'm still pleased with my compilation. I believe I have the most thorough, comprehensive collection of stuff.
Donna Haraway made a video with Paper Tiger TV in 1987.
"Donna Haraway Reads National Geographic on Primates"
How does the "cultured" gorilla, i.e. Koko, come to represent universal man? Author and culture critic Donna Haraway untangles the web of meanings, tracing "what gets to count as nature, for whom and when, and how much it costs to produce nature at a particular moment in history for a particular group of people." A feminist journey through the anthropological junglescape. Haraway is the author of Simians, Cyborgs and Women.
Tape# 126 1987, 29 minutes
In 2001, in the Chronicle of Higher Education's virtual "Colloquy", William Germano, Haraway's editor at Routledge, had this to say about _Modest Witness_:
Question from A. Hammond, Indiana University:
"I once heard that a title should not be longer than 10 words or syllables. How true is this?"
Answer from William Germano:
"I don't know this rule. I wonder if it's one of those psychological discoveries, like why telephone numbers have only seven digits (well, used to).
It sounds like common sense. Scholarship frequently trumps common sense, though. I worked with Donna Haraway on Primate Visions. That's four syllables. Later we did _Modest_Witness @ Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_ Meets_ OncoMouse_. And I've omitted the superscripts. It was a cyber-mouthful. But because of her track record, our sales and marketing departments supported the title and sold it confidently. I don't offer it as a model for anyone else, though."
In 1991, Lingua Franca asked five intellectual historians to name important books. Hayden White named Primate Visions. Says White: "This is a convincing exposé of sexist bias in the human sciences and especially in the fields of primatology and ethology. It is also a brilliant demonstration of the analytical power of radical feminist perspectives on cultural history."
