Macs Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3746051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Macs Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Macs |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0301-3566 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Anti-Parasitic Urbanism in Francophone African Fiction
The protagonists of Aminata Sow Fall's La Grève des bàttu (1979) and Rachid Boudjedra's L'Escargot entêté (1977) are public health officials leading 'campagnes d'assainissement' in francophone African cities. They are charged with removing a supposed public health threat from urban space: beggars in the former text and rats in the latter. This article reads the novels alongside Michel Serres's Le Parasite . It argues that thinking about the sanit…
WFH at the Maison de Molière
France's policy of confinement in response to Covid-19 posed an existential threat to theatres. The Comédie-Française responded with a range of digital and cinematic programming. This article examines Christophe Honoré's film Guermantes (2021), created following the cancellation of his stage adaptation of Marcel Proust's Le Côté de Guermantes, and Théâtre à la table, a series of staged readings posted to YouTube between November 2020 and June 202…
Parkour Fails and Hébertisme
“Parkour Fails” represent a genre of comedic YouTube videos consisting primarily of compilations of failed stunts by practitioners of the extreme sport of parkour. Parkour originated in the suburbs of Paris and involves creative reappropriation of urban furniture. In mass media, it is usually coded as a defiant challenge to urban norms and a symbol of multicultural France’s growing social mobility. However, it was inspired by Hébertisme, a traini…
Le Groupe fait du/de bruit
Le Groupe fait du/de bruit:Communication et communauté dans Mort de quelqu'un de Jules Romains Macs Smith (bio) Presque oublié aujourd'hui, Louis Farigoule, dit Jules Romains, (1885–1972) jouissait pendant sa vie d'une renommée internationale. Né dans la Haute-Loire, il passa la majorité de sa jeunesse à Paris, ville qui allait l'obséder. Au Lycée Condorcet il se tourna vers la poésie et adopta son nom de plume. On le considérait un étudiant bril…
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Le Groupe fait du/de bruit
Le Groupe fait du/de bruit:Communication et communauté dans Mort de quelqu'un de Jules Romains Macs Smith (bio) Presque oublié aujourd'hui, Louis Farigoule, dit Jules Romains, (1885–1972) jouissait pendant sa vie d'une renommée internationale. Né dans la Haute-Loire, il passa la majorité de sa jeunesse à Paris, ville qui allait l'obséder. Au Lycée Condorcet il se tourna vers la poésie et adopta son nom de plume. On le considérait un étudiant bril…
Parkour Fails and Hébertisme
“Parkour Fails” represent a genre of comedic YouTube videos consisting primarily of compilations of failed stunts by practitioners of the extreme sport of parkour. Parkour originated in the suburbs of Paris and involves creative reappropriation of urban furniture. In mass media, it is usually coded as a defiant challenge to urban norms and a symbol of multicultural France’s growing social mobility. However, it was inspired by Hébertisme, a traini…
WFH at the Maison de Molière
France's policy of confinement in response to Covid-19 posed an existential threat to theatres. The Comédie-Française responded with a range of digital and cinematic programming. This article examines Christophe Honoré's film Guermantes (2021), created following the cancellation of his stage adaptation of Marcel Proust's Le Côté de Guermantes, and Théâtre à la table, a series of staged readings posted to YouTube between November 2020 and June 202…
Anti-Parasitic Urbanism in Francophone African Fiction
The protagonists of Aminata Sow Fall's La Grève des bàttu (1979) and Rachid Boudjedra's L'Escargot entêté (1977) are public health officials leading 'campagnes d'assainissement' in francophone African cities. They are charged with removing a supposed public health threat from urban space: beggars in the former text and rats in the latter. This article reads the novels alongside Michel Serres's Le Parasite . It argues that thinking about the sanit…
Art (4 works) · History (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (1 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)