NATALIA PINHEIRO MANZONI

Published in 1985, the essay "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" by Donna Haraway had a significant impact both within and outside academia. From a postmodern perspective, the author proposes that feminism and other social movements should look to the cyborg figure as an epistemic and ontological substitute for the dualism of modern analytical categories. This figure would also represent the construction of other utopias from these new perspectives, which, by abandoning a certain romanticism, would be open to conceiving the world through the lens of cybernetics and the increasingly integrated technologies. To help readers understand the concept of cyborg feminism and other ideas contained in the essay, the manifesto was contextualized within feminist debate, as well as the emergence of the cyborg in cybernetics and its proliferation in popular culture. We proceed with an analysis of the manifesto focused on understanding the different meanings of the cyborg for the author, aiming to synthesize her cyborg feminism. In conclusion, we summarize Haraway's feminist philosophy of science, as well as her perspective in the debates of the philosophy of technology.