Jumping hurdles with mosquitoes?

摘要

The encounters with her fiery dog Cayenne take centre stage in Donna Haraway's most recent worldly intervention. Beautifully the two show us how dog-human relations can be practised, thought of, and written about. But how to engage with less cosy species-such as mosquitoes, bugs, viruses, or parasites? In the face of (deadly) diseases transmitted by such species we tend to be less curious about whom and what we touch (page 3) or sharing suffering (chapter 3), we might instead be more inclined to ask: How to survive?