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