We have never been Homo sapiens: CandidaHomo naturecultures

摘要

is paper responds to Donna Haraway's (2003) T e Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Signif cant Otherness , arguing that, Candida albicans, as opportunistic pathogens of humans, are—like dogs — "not here just to think with. T ey are here to live with." T is paper weaves a cat's cradle of di.erent cultural representations of human relations with Candida albicans, from public health, commodity culture, research science and art, in order to acknowledge my response-ability as an ecology of companion species. It is an embrace of the disturbing lacunae of CandidaHomo naturecultures; an attempt to grapple with the f esh of the more- than-human body.