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Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City
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The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites.According to French philosopher Michel Serres, ordered systems are founded on the pathologization of parasites, which can never be fully expelled. In Paris and the Parasite, Macs Smith extends Serres’s approach to Paris as a mediatic city, asking what organisms, people, and forms of interference constitute its parasites. Drawing on French poststructuralist theory and philosophy, media theory, the philosophy of science, and an array of literary and cultural sources, he examines Paris and its parasites from the early nineteenth century to today, focusing on the contemporary city. In so doing, he reveals the social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism.
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| Weight | 0.62 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.24 × 16.03 × 23.65 cm |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 296 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2021-6-8 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | USA |
| ISBN 10 | 0262045540 |
| About The Author | Macs Smith is the Hamilton Junior Research Fellow in French at The Queen's College at the University of Oxford. |
| Other text | “Ranging expertly from literature to street art, film to parkour, Smith brilliantly draws together architecture, urbanism, philosophy, biology, and social history to reveal the stakes of living together in the modern city. A compelling achievement.”—Martin Crowley, Anthony L. Lyster Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages, Queens’ College, Cambridge “From the transformation of architecture to contemporary urban practices such as parkour, graffiti, and mapping, Smith explores the complex logic of parasitism as an analytic capable of deciphering one of modernity’s iconic cities—Paris.”—Scott McQuire, Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Melbourne |
| Table Of Content | Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction 1 2 Apartment 23 3 Wall 61 4 Street 107 5 Bodies 155 6 Underground 189 Notes 229 Bibliography 257 Index 275 |
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