Shiba Inu
year:
2023
Featured in the book “La Condición Postnatural: Glosario de Ecologías para Otros Mundos” published by Cthulhu Books.
What can these cute puppies tell us about our relationship and co-evolution with other beings, our global economy and internet culture? This episode leaves me with many questions about the agency that things can develop, especially online. According to Donna Haraway, “in layers of history, layers of biology, layers of naturecultures, complexity is the name of our game”. She additionally mentions that “co-constitutive companion species (like dogs and humans) and co-evolution are the rule, not the exception”.
Shiba Inu seems to be a complex and hybrid assemblage of nature and culture, local and global, real and fictional, online and offline. An imported Asian dog being widely bred by humans because of becoming a meme figure and profitable asset online? This sounds like Darwinism 2.0. The uncanny familiarity of our entangled relationship with Shiba Inu seems like a complex ecology of hybridity that renders obsolete usual binaries.
location:
Paris, Franceteam:
N/Ayear:
2023commissioner:
Institute for Postnatural StudiesFeatured in the book “La Condición Postnatural: Glosario de Ecologías para Otros Mundos” published by Cthulhu Books.
What can these cute puppies tell us about our relationship and co-evolution with other beings, our global economy and internet culture? This episode leaves me with many questions about the agency that things can develop, especially online. According to Donna Haraway, “in layers of history, layers of biology, layers of naturecultures, complexity is the name of our game”. She additionally mentions that “co-constitutive companion species (like dogs and humans) and co-evolution are the rule, not the exception”.
Shiba Inu seems to be a complex and hybrid assemblage of nature and culture, local and global, real and fictional, online and offline. An imported Asian dog being widely bred by humans because of becoming a meme figure and profitable asset online? This sounds like Darwinism 2.0. The uncanny familiarity of our entangled relationship with Shiba Inu seems like a complex ecology of hybridity that renders obsolete usual binaries.
