In Lovebug,Daisy Lafarge explores metaphors of love and disease as she seeks to understand human vulnerability and our intimacy with microbial life. Turning to microbiology,mysticism,and psychoanalysis - as well as the raw materials of love and life - Lafarge navigates the uncomfortable intimacy between the human body and the many bacteria,vi-ruses,and parasites to which it is host. Lovebug is a book about the poetics of infection,and about how we can learn to live with multispecies ambivalence. How might we forge non-phobic relationships to our'little beasts'How might we re-wild our imaginations In weaving the personal with the pathological,Lovebug complicates the idea of coherent selfhood,revealing life as a site of radical vulnerability and an ongoing negotiation with limit.
Publisher: Peninsula Press LtdISBN: 9781913512378Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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