Practice of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau, 1984(translation)

  • Practice of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau,  1984(translation)
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    • General introduction
      • the ways in which users, commonly assumed to be passive and guided by established rules- operate.
      • 1. Consumer production
        • the investigation of everyday practices first delimited negatively
        • 3 further, positive determinations
          • Usage, or consumption
            • the analysis of the images broadcast by television(representation) and of the time spent watching television(behavior) should be complemented by a study of what the cultural consumer ‘makes’ or’does’ during time and with these images. The same goes for the use of urban spaces…..,
            • hidden production… ‘making’
              • it is hidden ’cause it is scattered over areas defined and occupied by systems of ‘production'(..commerce,etc)
              • nolonger leaves ‘consumers’ any Place in which they can indicate what they make or do with the products of these systems
              • products corresponds another production, called “consumption”

          • The procedures of everyday creativity
          • The formal structure of practice
          • The marginality of a majority
      • 2.The tactics of practice
        • Trajectories, tactics, and rhetorics
        • Reading, talking, swelling, cooking, etc.
        • Extensions: prospects and politics
    • Part1: A very ordinary culture
      • i: A common place: Ordinary language
      • ii: Popular cultures: Ordinary language
      • iii: ‘Making do’: Uses and tactics
    • Part2: Theories of the art of practice
      • iv: Foucault and Bourdieu
      • v: The arts of theory
      • vi: Story time
    • Part3: Spatial practices
      • vii: Walking in the city
      • viii: Railway navigation and incarceration
      • ix: Spatial stories
    • Part4: Uses of language
      • x: The scriptural economy
      • xi: Quotations of voices
      • xii: Reading as poaching
    • Part 5: Ways of believing
      • xiii: Believing and making people believe
      • xiv: The unnamable
    • Indeterminate