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 - she 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.