The Companion Species Manifesto bookcover

The Companion Species Manifesto

Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness
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Description

The Companion Species Manifesto is 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 own Cyborg 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."

Product Details

PublisherPrickly Paradigm Press
Publish DateApril 01, 2003
Pages112
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780971757585
Dimensions6.8 X 4.4 X 0.4 inches | 0.2 pounds
BISAC Categories: Nature,

About the Author

Donna Haraway is professor emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Reviews

"Does Haraway provide a convincing answer to the question, 'Why dogs?' . . . Haraway has provided us with a method, a way of being critical in and about the world. She provides the tools to undermine powerful and established understandings by asking simple yet profound questions and by making seemingly absurd connections. She sees the significant and remarkable in the everyday and quotidian. Whether we are all capable of matching the mental agility, humour and acumen that she brings to the task is of course another question."--Theory, Culture & Society

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