Living with and Learning From Bed Bugs
New York and New Forms of Interspecies Sociability
Abstract
This essay uses the subjective experience of a bed bug infestation as the starting point for thinking through the nature of parasitic relationships. Calling on recent literatures in mulit- and inter-species ethnography, the author asks the following question: if, as Anna Tsing has argued, a new kind of science is being born, one whose key characteristic is “multispecies love,” can we, as individuals, and as social beings, learn to love bed bugs?
Keywords: Multispecies ethnography; bed bugs; interspecies sociability; parasites; multispecies love

Published
Apr 15, 2013
How to Cite
BERTHE, Jamie.
Living with and Learning From Bed Bugs.
Semiotic Review, [S.l.], n. 1, apr. 2013.
Available at: <https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/28>. Date accessed: 08 feb. 2023.
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