Paris and the Parasite - by Macs Smith (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Smith investigates the role of parasites in the planning of Paris, specifically those stealing resources, hurting the city's health, and interfering of information transmission"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites.</b> <p/>According to French philosopher Michel Serres, ordered systems are founded on the pathologization of parasites, which can never be fully expelled. In <i>Paris and the Parasite</i>, 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Macs Smith is the Hamilton Junior Research Fellow in French at The Queen's College at the University of Oxford.
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