{"product_id":"lovebug","title":"Lovebug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe pathogen arrives anyway and takes a seat at the table. Conditioned to welcome damage, I am curious about this uninvited guest. You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLovebug\u003c\/em\u003e, Daisy Lafarge explores metaphors of love and disease as she seeks to understand human vulnerability and our intimacy with microbial life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTurning 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, viruses, and parasites to which it is host.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLovebug\u003c\/em\u003e 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 rewild 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. [publishers’ note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peninsula Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358064648532,"sku":"A8B-34139","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/lovebug.jpg?v=1790813930","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/lovebug","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}