Donna Haraway

Animals are everywhere in the middle of things, not at the beginning or the end.

Companion species are had and had back in every touch.

Becoming-with is how we come to matter, together.

Dogs and humans are in the thrall of each other.

The partners do not precede their relating; the relating is the relation.

Worlding is always partial, finite, marked by boundaries that do not close over into fullness.

To be one is always to become with many.

Playing cat's cradle with the world is a better game than the one where you try to capture it whole.

Sympoiesis is worlding with, not worlding against.

Terra is not the Earth; it is a name for the multispecies, multiscalar, and multitemporal ongoingness of land and water and air and beings.

Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene: stay with the trouble of living and dying in the Anthropocene, but do not let it name our times.

The arts of living on a damaged planet are the arts of living-with.

We become-with each other or not at all.

It matters what stories we tell stories with; it matters what worlds world worlds with.

Response-ability is rooted in response; it is about living and dying well together in the Anthropocene.

The plantation is a permanent condition for making biological and social orders.

Cthulhu is not Lovecraft's alien alone; it is a figure for the tentacular ones, the kin in the mud.

Learning to make kin is a politics more important than genetic reproduction.

We are trained to demand the full story, but the point is to make a partial connection.

The task is to become capable of response in the face of the undoing of worlds.