About this title: Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780520061682ISBN:0520061683
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780520236998ISBN:0520236998
Description: New. Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of co... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of California Press, Berkeley
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780520061682ISBN:0520061683
Description: Near Fine. Octavo; 229pp; Softcover AS NEW, no markings, no spine creases, small namestamp on endpaper, slight shelf & edge wear, else Fine. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 2002-12-01
ISBN-13:9780520236998ISBN:0520236998
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780520236998ISBN:0520236998
Description: New. Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behaviour are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of co... read more
Edition: F First Paperback Edition
Binding: S Trade Paperback
Publisher: Univ of California Press, Berkeley
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780520061682ISBN:0520061683
Description: Fine. 8vo xxiv, 229 pp, preface, general introduction Part I: A Very Ordinary Culture, Part II: Theories of the Art of Practicce, Part III: Spatial Practices, Part IV: Uses of Language, Part V: Ways of Believing, indeterminate, notes. Translated by Steven Rendall. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia in text. Wraps. ~Click on BOOKSTORES to browse our extensive listings of similar titles in Sociology~ read more
"'Like the skill of a driver in the streets of Rome or Naples, there is a skill that has its connoisseurs and its esthetics exercised in any labyrinth of powers, a skill ceaselessly recreating opacities and ambiguities - spaces of darkness and trickery - in the universe of technocratic transparency, a skill that disappears into them and reappears again, taking no responsibility for the administration of a totality. Even the field of misfortune is refashioned by this combination of manipulation and enjoyment.' (18)"
""Objects and words also have hollow places in which a past sleeps, as in the everyday acts of walking, eating, going to bed, in which ancient revolutions slumber" (108). "The revolutions of history, economic mutations, demographic mixtures lie in layers within it, and remain there, hidden in customs, rites, and spatial practices" (200)."
"Very insightful. Definitely directing me in the process of making videos/films for installation spaces in terms of the content I seem to be drawn to these days."
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