A Cyborg Manifesto is a groundbreaking essay by Donna Haraway that challenges the boundaries between human and machine, organism and technology, and nature and culture. Using the metaphor of the cyborg—a hybrid of organism and machine—Haraway critiques the traditional notions of feminism, identity, and politics. She advocates for a new, ironic, and fragmented myth of resistance that embraces ambiguity and contradiction. Rather than seeking purity or unity, the cyborg represents fractured identities, coalition through affinity, and a refusal of essentialism.

Haraway’s work is both a political proposal and a theoretical provocation, rooted in socialist-feminism but sharply critical of both Marxist and radical feminist orthodoxies. She imagines a world of “potent fusions and dangerous possibilities,” where cyborgs become tools for rethinking what it means to be human, gendered, and political in the late 20th century and beyond.