Lovebug / Daisy Lafarge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lafarge, Daisy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Microbiology--Popular works.

Human body.

Medical parasitology--Popular works.

Medical parasitology.

Human body (Philosophy).

Zoonoses--Psychological aspects--Popular works.

Zoonoses.

Pathogenic microorganisms--Psychological aspects--Popular works.

Pathogenic microorganisms.

Sick--Psychology--Popular works.

Sick.

Communicable diseases--Popular works.

Communicable diseases.

Human body--Microbiology.

Genre:

Popular works

Physical Description:

160 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Peninsula Press, [2023]

Summary:

"'The 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.' 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, viruses, 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 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"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Let's hook up

Love kills people

The bite

I lose my head

We eat each other up

A species is an idea.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781913512378

1913512371

OCLC:

1400097483