{"product_id":"9781913512378","title":"Lovebug","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Daisy Lafarge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" 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, the book complicates the idea of coherent selfhood, revealing life as a site of radical vulnerability and an ongoing negotiation with limit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913512378. Peninsula Press. pb. 192 pages. 19.7 x 12.8 cm.\u003cbr\u003ePublication date: February 2026.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Peninsula Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47577210880157,"sku":"9781913512378","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/1439\/9645\/files\/9781913512378.jpg?v=1780618144","url":"https:\/\/wholesale.manic.com.au\/products\/9781913512378","provider":"Books at Manic Wholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}