The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness [Paperback]

The Companion Species Manifestois about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in significant otherness. In all their historical complexity, Donna Haraway tells us, dogs matter. They are not just surrogates for theory, she says; they are not here just to think with. Neither are they just an alibi for other themes; dogs are fleshly material-semiotic presences in the body of technoscience. They are here to live with. Partners in the crime of human evolution, they are in the garden from the get-go, wily as Coyote. This pamphlet is Haraway's answer to her ownCyborg Manifesto, where the slogan for living on the edge of global war has to be not just cyborgs for earthly survival but also, in a more doggish idiom, shut up and train.

Donna Harawayis a professor in the History of Consciousness Department, UC-Santa Cruz.

Emergent Naturecultures

 

Prehensions

 

Companions

 

Species

 

Evolution Stories

 

Love Stories

 

Training Stories

 

Positive Bondage

 

Harsh Beauty

 

Apprenticed to Agility

 

The Game Story

 

Breed Stories

 

Great Pyrenees

 

Australian Shepherds

 

A Category of One's Own