Parasites: Exploitation and Interference in French Thought and Culture

Author:   Matt Phillips ,  Tomas Weber
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   128
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9783034322669


Pages:   274
Publication Date:   23 November 2018
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   Matt Phillips ,  Tomas Weber
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   128
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9783034322669


ISBN 10:   3034322666
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   23 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS: Steven Connor: Parables of the Para- - Khalil Khalsi: Homelessness and Urban Parasitism: Diagnosing the City’s Malaise - Alice Blackhurst: Taking Care or Taking Advantage? Sophie Calle’s Prenez soin de vous - Andrew Jones: The Philosophical Commitments of the Self-Metaphor in Immunology - Anne Orset: The Parasitical Relationship between Science and the Sacred in Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Claire Lenoir and L’Ève Future - Michael Lucey: What You Might Hear When People Talk, or Proust as a Linguistic Anthropologist - Rhiannon Harries: The Parasitic and the Ordinary: Speech, Time and Ethics in Nicolas Philibert’s La Maison de la radio - Nicholas Cotton: «Se laisser contaminer»: Parasitic Practices, Paradigms of Deconstruction - Blake Gutt: An Infestation of Signification: Narrative and Visual Parasitism on the Manuscript Page - Carole Nosella: The Parasite A(r)t Work: Digital Glitches in Visual Art - Matt Phillips: Empathic Static: Empathy and Conflict, with Simon Baron-Cohen and Virginie Despentes

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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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