The companion species manifesto: dogs, people, and significant otherness, paperback/donna j. haraway

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 Haraways 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.