Macs Smith, "Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City" (MIT Press, 2021)
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The Parasite of Urbanism
I think what really struck me in reading newspaper coverage of new debut was the recurring idea that it was a movement that made no demands and had nothing to say. So I wanted to think about that perception of me to be silent, not just as a kind of bad faith refusal to engage but as a problem for how you how you do street politics. And so thinking in that kind of context, like for a movement like Nudubu, if the state decides that his response to you is going to be to flood the zone with noise, then what do you do as a political movement?
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