“The posthuman”

as a cultural condition brought about by techno revolutions

should be discussed along with animals

which function as“ the other” that helps with the configuration of posthuman subjectivity.By regarding human beings

animals and cyborgs as“ companion species” in the broad sense

Donna Haraway creates new space for making an alternative critique of posthumanism usually associated with informatics and cybernetics. Haraway’s conception of animal

on the one hand

underscores the relationality between men and animals

which not only challenges the anthropocentric image of animals fostered since the Enlightenment

but stands as a counterpoint to the animal philosophies of Deleuze

Levinas and Derrida. On the other hand

Haraway’s posthuman ethics on animals

though derived from the frontier of modern biosciences

remains utopian when it comes to an on-the-ground practice in the lived world. The difficulties of carrying out Haraway’s animal ethics are manifest in her problematic engagement with Spivak’s postcolonial critique. This essay suggests that we need to perform empathic cross-species imagination which finds its embodiment in the domain of literary text. Only by doing so can we find a path to the so-called“ Cosmopolitics” rooted in the corporeal and historical commonality of men and animals.