Difference that matter : on love in the kennel of life

About dogs? Well yes, indeed! Donna Haraway, amply known in feminist theory and technoscience studies, famous for her Cyborg Manifesto, published a book which, as the subtitle makes explicit, deals with dogs, humans and significant otherness. And not just any book of modest ambition, but nothing less than a second manifesto. To find the author of the stories on cyborg-transgressions, vampire-frankensteinian monstrosities and transgenic oncomice busy with ‘dog writing’ surprised all, amazed many, and disappointed some. Granted, the work is less surprising when one knows that human-animal relationships is a thriving topic in US academic landscape nowadays. Still, the unexpected work of the person who gathered collective enthusiasm around the figure of the cyborg provoked, above all, disorientation.