{"product_id":"handling-filth-simple-sabotage-field-manual-paperback","title":"Handling Filth: Simple Sabotage Field Manual - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJared Schickling\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHandling Filth: Simple Sabotage Field Manual\u003c\/em\u003e uses CIA and military metaphors to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and interpersonal traumas of the early 2020s, and the author's own experience with illness and sociopolitical strife. The book is held together by ecological, especially birding, symbolism that explores the coming climate crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's both stirring and alarming to apply to one's brain a book like Schickling's \u003cem\u003eManual\u003c\/em\u003e, a book that resembles the brain itself: miniature and cosmic, poxy and fluxy, moody, dim and bright. This \u003cem\u003eManual \u003c\/em\u003eis like reading Thomas Browne or the schematics inscribed on the Voyager record-the past seems more and more accurate as a description of the present, while the present's own self-description grows more unrecognizable with every ballistic tremor of the eye. In an array of formats and formulations, this \u003cem\u003eManual \u003c\/em\u003esets fire to the bromide that he cataclysm of the present tense is happening for the first time. It is happening again.\" --Joyelle McSweeney\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 98\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 8 x 8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50384578183405,"sku":"9798985137194","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/Pl7uI7S69Z9798985137194.webp?v=1785739754","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/handling-filth-simple-sabotage-field-manual-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}