ABSTRACT
Haraway was not only groundbreaking in her analysis of the human-machine and human-material relations but is a pioneer in what she terms ‘companion species’. In numerous publications Haraway has detailed how various other species of animals have shared social and personal engagements and history with humanity. It would be irresponsible she notes, to deny our tangled and intricate pasts, and examples of animals whose entanglements with authors she deals with at length include pigeons and their involvement and use in imperial wars and in working class leisure; and dogs and their involvement and use in our discursive practices around geopolitics, nationalism, sex, gender and race. If, as a biologist, Haraway calls for an examination of the ‘phenomena’ of companionship at the scale of molecular or genomic evolutionary history, then as an anthropologist, Tsing does her disciplinary equivalent by treating the authors to a social evolutionary history of the theme.
