When species meet
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Haraway, D. J. (2008) When species meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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1. When species meet
- Whom and what do I touch when I touch my dog?
- How is "becoming with" a practice of becoming worldly? (3)
- We always "become with" microbiota
Companion species
- [My dog] "continues to colonize all my cells ... symbiogenesis" (15)
- Anna Tsing, "human nature is an interspecies relationship"
- "Mushrooms as companion species"
"I am not a posthumanist; I am who I become with companion species, who and which make a mess out of categories in the making of kin and kind. Queer messmates in mortal play, indeed." (19)
And say the philosopher responded? When animals look back
- On Derrida and his cat
Becoming-animal or setting out the twenty-third bowl
- On Deleuze and Guattari and their lack of "respect" (27)
2. Value-added dogs and lively capital
Lively Capital
- What happens when living pets are commodities?
- "The uncanny is where value becomes flesh again, in spite of all the dematerializations and objectifications inherent in market valuation" (45)
- Marx: use and exchange value were names for relationships
- This is how you bridge the market view of "equivalences" to the "messy domain" of actual people (45)
- Dogs in the US are commodities as well as consumers of commodities (46)
- To be a "situated human being" is to be "shaped by and with animal familiars" (47)
Valuing dogs: markets and commodities
- 69m homes, 63% of all households, had pets in 2006 US (47)
- "Industrial pet food is a strong line in the multispecies chain of global factory farming" (49)
- Identifying areas of Marx's analysis that are unspecific on relations among species
- Dogs have acquired the "right to health" (49)
Jump offs
- Global Information, Inc.
- The Business Communications Company
