Paris and the Parasite
Paris and the Parasite

Author: Macs Smith

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0262045540

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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.

Paris and the Parasite
Paris and the Parasite

Author: Macs Smith

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0262362554

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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.

The Mind Parasites
The Mind Parasites

Author: Colin Wilson

Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing

Published: 2013-05-15

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1939681081

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Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archaeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity's extinction. They can be fought with one weapon only: the mind, pushed to--and beyond--its limits. Pushed so far that humans can read each other's thoughts, that the moon can be shifted from its orbit by thought alone. Pushed so that man can at last join battle with the loathsome parasites on equal terms.

The Parasites
The Parasites

Author: Daphne du Maurier

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2013-12-17

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0316253502

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When people play the game: Name three or four persons whom you would choose to have with you on a desert island - they never choose the Delaneys. They don't even choose us one by one as individuals. We have earned, not always fairly we consider, the reputation of being difficult guests . . . Maria, Niall, and Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents - their father, a flamboyant singer and their mother, a talented dancer. Now pursuing their own creative dreams, all three siblings feel an undeniable bond, but it is Maria and Niall who share the secret of their parents' pasts. Alternately comic and poignant, The Parasites is based on the artistic milieu its author knew best, and draws the reader effortlessly into that magical world.

Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Library

Publisher:

Published: 1904

Total Pages: 1080

ISBN-13:

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Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)

Publisher:

Published: 1904

Total Pages: 1168

ISBN-13:

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Biodiversity and Evolution of Parasitic Life in the Southern Ocean
Biodiversity and Evolution of Parasitic Life in the Southern Ocean

Author: Sven Klimpel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-16

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 3319463438

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The Southern Oceans including Antarctic regions are peculiar and very sensitive water biotopes, where animal life and species interrelations are only poorly investigated. Especially the influence of parasites on their host species needs intensive consideration in times of global warming and worldwide pollution. Both factors may influence the finely balanced interrelationships between parasites and endangered hosts especially in specialized regions such as Antarctica. Before this background the present book offers a broad spectrum of important parasite-host interrelations in times of ecosystem changes written by experienced and renown international specialists.