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     This video is a re-consideration of Donna Haraway’s dogs (companion species) --in combination with cyber dolls-- in order to do my work.  (For as Haraway writes, “Bitches that run fast and bite hard are not surrogates for theory.”) 

     And even though I spent all my childhood in dog kennel husbandry, for my money a goddess remains, at least in terms of contemporary visuality, merely a surrealistic construct.  Cyborgs, however, are quite real, dangerously and tangibly hyperreal...exactly as is television today. 

     Donna Haraway’s groundbreaking writings in this area were vital.  But today, ‘cyborgs’ interpellate at every turn, making it equally vital to challenge Haraway’s contradictory “surrogacy”.  And so this video attempts to re-represent Haraway’s illogical conclusion.  For we all stand at the precipice of our own narrowing uncanny valley.