“... clear how Mbembe’s thinking here differs from that of Chakrabarty or the posthumanist feminist Donna Haraway, who has also questioned the categories of human, animal and technological, and emphasised the planetary scale of ‘extraction’. Mbembe is a master synthesiser: he is interesting precisely because he arranges familiar information in new and ...”

“... Shakespeare described man as a thing of ‘shreds and patches’, Freud as a ‘prosthetic God’, Donna Haraway as a cyborg. Rebarbative as it may at first seem, Stryker’s vision is the most inclusive. Enter my world: ‘I challenge you to risk abjection and flourish as well as have I.’ What you would most violently repudiate is an inherent and ...”