ABSTRACT
In this chapter I describe the dialogues I had with the Romanian street dog, Olli. In the first half of the chapter, I focus specifically on the role of touch in dog-human language-games, drawing on insights about touch in phenomenology, critical animal studies, and the work of Irigaray. I then turn to animal politics, and investigate how we can take dog agency seriously politically, through an investigation of Olli’s diplomatic skills. Olli not only helped me to understand the kind of wisdom and insight that dogs have with regard to the multispecies community, but also showed me how this understanding can function as the basis for new social and political multispecies action.
