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

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.