Parasites: Exploitation and Interference in French Thought and Culture (Modern French Identities, Volume 128)

Phillips, Matt; Weber, Tomas (eds.)

ISBN 10: 3034322666 / ISBN 13: 9783034322669

Verlag: Peter Lang, Oxford, 2018

Paperback. Unused shop stock with small bump to lower edge of front cover and minor shelf wear. Otherwise like new. AD. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 525294

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The word «parasite» evokes nearness and feeding: the Greek parasitos is «one who eats at the table of another». In biology, a parasitic organism is the beneficiary of an unequal relation with its host. The social parasite, too, is one recognized or misrecognized as the unproductive recipient of one-way exchange. In communications theory, meanwhile, static or interference («parasite», in French) is the useless information which clouds the channel between sender and receiver. In 1980, Michel Serres’s Le Parasite mobilized the concept of the parasite to figure noises, disruptions, destructions and breakdowns at the heart of communication systems, social structures and human relations. Drawing on Serres’s work, the chapters of this volume – organized around two conceptual poles, exploitation and interference – examine French literature (Villiers de l’Isle Adam, Proust, contemporary poetry), film (Nicolas Philibert, Claus Drexel), art (Sophie Calle, contemporary «glitch art») and philosophy (Descartes, Serres, Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari), alongside medieval hagiography, immunology, communications theory and linguistic anthropology. The volume thereby demonstrates the new and continued relevance of the figure of the parasite in thinking about transmission, attachment, use, abuse and dependency.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Matt Phillips teaches at the University of Paris-Diderot (Paris-7). His research examines questions of emotion and affect through the lens of modern and contemporary French literature and thought. Tomas Weber is a PhD candidate and translator in the French Department at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral thesis focuses on the thought of Bruno Latour and the discourse of speculative metaphysics.

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Titel: Parasites: Exploitation and Interference in ...
Verlag: Peter Lang, Oxford
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Einband: Paperback
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