Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City

by Macs Smith

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262045540
• ISBN13: 9780262045544
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"