Haraway against Deleuze, or, Must We Like Pets?

Abstract

Haraway criticises Deleuze and Guattari for disparaging women and animals in their work on the notion of becoming-animal, but in doing so betrays the fact that she has not properly understood their concept. Her criticisms are disingenuous, though, because her own position on animals fails to live up to her proclaimed refusal of anthropocentrism. Her companion species project ignores or glosses over the extent to which human exceptionalism prevails in every aspect of the human–animal encounter, particularly where pets are concerned.