"We touch Jim’s dog with fingery eyes made possible by a fine digital
camera, computers, servers, and e-mail programs through which the
high-density jpg was sent to me.4 Infolded into the metal, plastic, and
electronic flesh of the digital apparatus is the primate visual system that
Jim and I have inherited, with its vivid color sense and sharp focal power.
Our kind of capacity for perception and sensual pleasure ties us to the
lives of our primate kin. Touching this heritage, our worldliness must
answer to and for those other primate beings, both in their ordinary
habitats and in labs, television and film studios, and zoos. Also, the biological
colonizing opportunism of organisms, from the glowing but invisible
viruses and bacteria to the crown of ferns on top of this pooch’s
head, is palpable in the touch. Biological species diversity and all that asks
in our time come with this found dog." Donna Haraway, When Species Meet p.5