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I wonder how people perceive their everyday lives?
In news on April 21, 2012 at 9:30 amreading Certeau:
What is an art or “way of making” ?
(…) “popular culture” present themselves essentially as “arts of making”, i.e., as combinatory or utilizing modes of consumption. These practices bring into play a “popular” ratio, a way of thinking invested in a way of acting, an art of combination which cannot be dissociated from an art of using.
(…) ways of making (…) were selected according to their value (…) to obtaining fairly differentiated variants: readers’ practices, practices related to urban spaces, utilizations of everyday rituals, re-uses and functions of the memory through the “autorities” that make possible everyday practices, etc.
(…) the operations proper to the recomposition of a space by familial practices (…) to the tactics of the art of cooking, which simultaneously organizes a network of relations, poetic ways of “making do” and a re-use of marketing structures.
(…) scientific literature that might furnish hypotheses allowing the logic of unselfconscious thought to be taken seriously. Three areas of special interest. First sociologists, anthropologists, and indeed historians have elaborated a theory of such practices, mixtures of rituals and makeshifts (bricolage), manipulations od spaces, operators of networks. (…) others have described the procedures of everyday interections relative to structures of expetation, negotiation and improvisation proper to ordinary language.
(…) these practices themselves alternately exarcebate and disrupt our logics. (…) ” And I forgot the element of chance introduced by circunstances, calm or haste, sun or cold, dawn or dusk, the taste of strawberries or abandonment, the half-understood message, the front page of the newspapers, the voice on the telephone, the most anodyne conversation, the most anonymous man or woman, everything that speaks, makes noise, passed by, touches us lightly, meets us head on” (1).
(1) Jacques Sojcher, La Démarche poétique (Paris:UGE 10/18, 1976), 145.
CERTEAU, Michel De. The Practice of Everyday Life: General Introduction, p. xv-xvi
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(…) “Ways of operating” constitute of innumerable practices (…) which users reappropriate the space organized by techniques of social cultural production. (…) the goal is to perceive and analyze the microbe-like operations proliferating within technocratic structures and deflecting their functioning by means of a multitude of “tactics” articulated in the details of everyday life; (…) . To bring to light the clandestine forms taken by the dispersed, tactical, and makeshift creativity of groups or individuals already caught in the nets of “discipline.” Pushed to their ideal limits, these procedures and ruses of consumers compose the network of an antidiscipline (…).
CERTEAU, Michel De. The Practice of Everyday Life: General Introduction, p. xv
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These (…) characteristics of the speech act can be found in many other practices (walking, cooking, etc.). An objective is at least adumbrated by this parallel, (…) only part valid. Such an objective assumes that users make innumerable and infinitesimal transformations of and within the dominant cultural economy in order to adapt it to their own interests and their own rules. We must determine the procedures, bases, effects, and possibilities of this collective activity.
CERTEAU, Michel De. The Practice of Everyday Life: General Introduction, p. xiv
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The act of speaking is not reducible to a knowledge of the language. (…) By adopting the point of view of enunciation (…) we privilege the act of speaking; according to that point of view, speaking operates within the field of a linguistic system, it effects an appropriation, or reappropriation, of language by its speakers; it estabilishes a present relative to a time and place; and it posits a contract with the other in a network of places and relations.
CERTEAU, Michel De. The Practice of Everyday Life: General Introduction, p. xiii
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The “making” in question is a production, a poesis (1) - but a hidden one, because it is scattered over areas defined and occupied by systems of “production” (2) and because steadily increasing expansion of these systems no longer leaves “consumers” any place in which they can indicate what they make or do with the products of these systems.
(1) from the Greek poiein ” to create, invent, generate.”
(2) television, urban development, commerce, etc.
CERTEAU, Michel De. The Practice of Everyday Life: General Introduction, p. xi
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Moreover, the question (…) concerns an operational logic whose models may go as far back as the age-old ruses of fishes and insects that disguise or transform themselves in order to survive, and which has in any case been concealed by the form of rationality current dominant in Western culture.
CERTEAU, Michel De. The Practice of Everyday Life: General Introduction, p. xi
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This essay is part of a continuing investigation of the ways in which users – commonly assumed to be passive and guided by established rules – operate. The point is not so much to discuss this elusive yet fundamental subject as to make such discussion possible; that is, by means of inquires and hypotheses, to indicate pathways for further research. This goal will be achieved if every day practices, ways of operating or doing things, no longer appear as merely the obscure background of social activity, and if a body of theoretical questions, methods, categories, and perspectives, by penetrating this obscurity, make it possible to articulate them.
CERTEAU, Michel De. The Practice of Everyday Life: General Introduction, p. xi
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The everyday life is something that’s given us each day (or something that we can share), that puts pressure on us day after day, so there’s some oppression that comes with this present. Every day, in the morning, there’s something we assume when we wake up, the weight of life, the difficulty of living in this or another condition, with some fatigue and some desire. This everyday life is something that hold us very deeply, coming from our inner. It’s a story that’s on the midway of ourselves, almost retreating and sometimes seeming veiled. We can’t forget this “world of memory(…) It’s a world we love so deeply with its olfative memory, childhood places memory, memory of body, gestures of childhood, and the pleasures (…) What really means to the historian of everyday life is the invisible…
CERTEAU, Michel De. GIARD, Luce. MAYOL, Pierre. The Practice of Everyday Life: Living and Cooking v.2. p.31
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