The ParasiteInfluential philosopher Michel Serres's foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres's arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue--creating diversity and complexity vital to human life and thought.
Michel Serres is professor in history of science at the Sorbonne, professor of Romance languages at Stanford University, and author of several books, including Genesis.
Lawrence R. Schehr is professor of French at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University. His books include Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minnesota, 2003). |
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... complex than the simple chain . This parasite interrupts at first glance , consolidates when you look again . The city rat gets used to it , is vaccinated , becomes immune . The town makes noise , but the noise makes the town . Who then ...
... complex system with two different feasts . Noise is a sign of the increase in complexity . It would seem that the separation of city and country was a decisive one in history : there were simple rats and complex rats afterwards . The ...
... complex . But it is not because it is more complex that it is not the same thing . These descriptions or phenomenologies , sometimes in logic , sometimes in topology , * repeated for almost a century in a variety of guises , express the ...
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Rats Meals Cascades 35 | 3 |
Satyrs Meals HostGuest | 15 |
Decisions Indecisions The Excluded Third | 22 |
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