{"product_id":"abandon-every-hope-essays-for-the-dead","title":"Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHORTLISTED IN THE 2024 STELLA PRIZE!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHayley Singer's Stella Prize shortlisted book!\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eRead her interview\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/stella.org.au\/the-stella-interview-hayley-singer\/\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eCan anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats into infinity. Has a nasty sting of corpses. What was it Dante wrote?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbandon Every Hope\u003c\/i\u003e is a lament, a deranged encyclopedia, and a diary of anxiety. How can anyone document the vastness of violence against animals in a bloated industrial age?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHayley Singer investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse to map the contours of a world cut to pieces by organised and profit-driven death. In her compelling and poetic prose, Singer asks how we may write the life of the dead; the smell of an egg factory; of multispecies PTSD; of planetary harm and self-harm: of the horror we make on earth. Where does the slaughterhouse begin and how can it end? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHayley Singer writes essays about literature and ecologies, queer embodiment and activism, multispecies in\/justices and on reading and writing as worlds end and begin again. Her writing has been published in \u003ci\u003eSydney Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lifted Brow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCordite Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWriting from Below\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches creative writing at the University of Melbourne. This is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover artwork: Jo Darbyshire, \u003ci\u003eThe Glorious Decline – Magenta\u003c\/i\u003e, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote on the first edition from author\u003c\/strong\u003e: The phrase ‘life unworthy of life’ which is deployed in this book comes from the German eugenics document,\u003cem\u003eAuthorization for the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life\u003c\/em\u003e (1920). The connection between this eugenics document and ‘the animal condition,’ by which I mean the ranking of certain lives as “inferior” and therefore destroyable, is described in detail in Charles Patterson’s book, \u003cem\u003eEternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust\u003c\/em\u003e (2002).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upswell Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ 180 Pages \/ 210x150mm","offer_id":42238583210039,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/7771\/2951\/files\/UP_Abandon-Every-Hope-front-cover.jpg?v=1779074723","url":"https:\/\/upswell-publishing.myshopify.com\/products\/abandon-every-hope-essays-for-the-dead","provider":"Upswell Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}