The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness

by Donna J. Haraway

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780971757585
Publisher:	Prickly Paradigm Press
Publication date:	04/01/2003
Series:	Paradigm
Edition description:	1
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	685,308
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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