"A brilliant account of the politics of shit. It will leave you
speechless." Written in Paris after the heady days of student
revolt in May 1968 and before the devastation of the AIDS epidemic,
History of Shit is emblematic of a wild and adventurous strain of
1970s' theoretical writing that attempted to marry theory,
politics, sexuality, pleasure, experimentation, and humor.
Radically redefining dialectical thought and post-Marxist politics,
it takes an important-and irreverent-position alongside the works
of such postmodern thinkers as Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, and
Lyotard. Laporte's eccentric style and ironic sensibility combine
in an inquiry that is provocative, humorous, and intellectually
exhilarating. Debunking all humanist mythology about the grandeur
of civilization, History of Shit suggests instead that the
management of human waste is crucial to our identities as modern
individuals-including the organization of the city, the rise of the
nation-state, the development of capitalism, and the mandate for
clean and proper language. Far from rising above the muck, Laporte
argues, we are thoroughly mired in it, particularly when we appear
our most clean and hygienic. Laporte's style of writing is itself
an attack on our desire for "clean language." Littered with lengthy
quotations and obscure allusions, and adamantly refusing to follow
a linear argument, History of Shit breaks the rules and challenges
the conventions of "proper" academic discourse.
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