Quotes by Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

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Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of its own possibilit — Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive. — Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The moving about tha — Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyr — Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to — Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction — Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that c — Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is — Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
The same is true of stories and legends that haunt urban space like superfluous or additional inhabitants. They are the — Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
what does travel ultimately produce if it is not, by a sort of reversal, 'an exploration of the deserted places of my me — Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] — Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life