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# History of Shit (Documents Book)

**Brand:** dominique laportenadia benabidrodolphe el-khoury
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History of Shit (Documents Book)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Quirky, Difficult, But Ultimately Rewarding Read to Filth
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 10, 2021*

As its title might suggest, this is definitely not for everyone. Laporte also delighted in defying convention and his book is as messy as his subject matter. He also peppers the text with obscure references - some more helpful and relevant than others. But Laporte writes with incredible wit, good humor, and a sharp eye for farce, irony and hypocrisy. In so doing, he manages to skewer more than a few sacred cows while sending up our changeable mores and subjective assertions of what has value and what does not. He brings the receipts too, with one eye-opening example after another throughout history in which the powerful and well-to-do often created their own reality and mythology of what was fashionable and what was disgusting. Laporte also rebels against the sanitization (and thus impoverishment) of the French language that was deemed wasteful and extravagant by overbearing officials. His arguments here are a bit more muddled, but they serve as a good metaphorical parallel to the effort to sanitize and privatize (and profit from) our waste. Some sections made me laugh out loud, some were absolutely shocking, and some were nearly impenetrable. It wasn't always easy sledding, but I thought the ride was well worth it in the end.

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    Five Stars
  

*by L***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 5, 2014*

great book for seeing the beginnings of the garbage / recycle big money businesses today.

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    NOT about scatological humor
  

*by S***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 3, 2003*

Although it is hilarious in parts, it is actually a pretty sober piece of scholarship, albeit written in the dank hull of that "ship" rather than on the impeccably clean and respectable captain's deck, as it were. The spirit with which this book is written, makes it a sort of lesser cousin to Louis Aragon's Treatise on Style.The content basically traces the (political and economic) history of the problem of getting rid of human excrement and other bodily productions, including, ultimately, foul language and obnoxious thought -- as defined by the State and Royal Science. Arguing for the paralell between the history of subjectivity and the history of 'merde' in all its multifarious forms, Laporte centers his thesis on the (Freudian) idea that the rise of the subject and subjectivity is intimately tied to the decline of the olfactory sense (the public organ par excellence) and its replacement by the optical (the organ of privation). Laporte explores the subsequent tensions that came to define modernity's agenda in the space between the private nose and the public eye.Discussed here, in a style of writing that is so erratic and meandering (at high speeds) that it comes close to derailing altogether, are Egyptian rites and Roman laws, furniture design, urban planning, and medieval edicts concerning burials (so as to minimize the spread of "morbidific rays" emitted by the decomposing dead).Body, bed, building, tomb, and tomes are all examined in their association with the ever-present tyranny/blessing of the cloacal, the miasmic and the mephitic. The problem of properly disposing human 'merde' has consequences far beyond the water closet and beyond the little container (the cranium) that contains that most most fertile producer of foul ideas -- the brain. An excellent peek by way of Poopology to another take on the History of Control.Warning: As the content of this book is not bathroom humor, the illiterate or the poorly educated cannot reasonably expect to get any pleasure out of this small but pungent book. Avoid this unless you are familiar with European intellectual history.

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