Tag: Philosophy

Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography, Jeff Malpas, 1999

Introduction: the influence of place

  • There are obvious ways, of course,  in which the environment determines our activities and our thoughts – we build here rather than there because of the greater suitability of the site;
  • -but there other much less straightforward and perhaps more pervasive ways in which our relation to landscape and environment is indeed one of our own affectivity as much as of our ability to effect.

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

  • 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

Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, Marc Augé, 1995

About Marc Augé

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Aug%C3%A9

Marc Augé (born 1935 in Poitiers) is a French anthropologist.

In an essay and book of the same title, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995), Marc Augé coined the phrase “non-place” to refer to places of transience that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as “places”. Examples of a non-place would be a motorway, a hotel room, an airport or a supermarket.[1]

About the book

  • Non-Places: An introduction to supermodernity, Marc Auge, 1995
    • Introduction
      • 1992, urbanization, emerging ‘magelopolice’
      • triple ‘decentring’
        • 1st decenter: City and its importance is measured by its connection and attractiveness to the others.
        • 2nd decenter: Dwelling. Helmes has taken Hestia’s place -> means to day the computer and computer have replaces the hearth, where shadowy, feminine center of the house used to be.
        • 3rd decenter:  Individual. Decentered in a sense from himself. Mobilephones, TV, computers.. an individual is decentered from his immediate physical surrounding.