May 4, 2016 – Donna Haraway: “Manifestly Haraway”

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Manifestly Haraway brings together Donna Haraway’s seminal “Cyborg Manifesto” and “Companion Species Manifesto.” Manifestly Haraway also includes a wide-ranging conversation between Haraway and Cary Wolfe on the history and meaning of the manifestos in the context of biopolitics, feminism, Marxism, human-nonhuman relationships, making kin, material semiotics, the negative way of knowing, secular Catholicism, and more.

Donna J. Haraway is distinguished professor emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of, among other works, “Primate Visions,” “Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium,” and “When Species Meet.”

Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University, where he is also founding director of 3CT (Center for Critical and Cultural Theory). He is the author of “Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal and What Is Posthumanism?”

Date/Time
May 4, 2016 | 6:00-8:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

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