Paris and the Parasite

Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City

Macs Smith

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MIT Press
17 August 2021

Architecture

The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites.

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.

By: Macs Smith
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262045544
ISBN 10: 0262045540
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 17 August 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Macs Smith is the Hamilton Junior Research Fellow in French at The Queen's College at the University of Oxford.