deCerteau

- Modalities
- Describe and understand what is everywhere
- From a historian’s pt of view, studying the quotidian is difficult
- Evidence of everyday is ephemeral
- Irretrievable
- “the mute body” – most what we do, there is no apparent record of it
- interest in the ordinary, in the everyday
- how do we navigate the structures in our life, the resistance
- “la peruque” a term for the sly trick, the example of the office worker who uses time while they are at work, using the machinery and power to write a love letter or something unproductive or part of the work paid to do
- not subversive per se, but slight form of resistance
- sly trickery of how we live our lives
- humanist view to the way institutions operate
- actualities – finding time to reuse the resources for other kind sof means and possibilities
- typology of how to understand the different things one might do: strategies and tactics
- strategies as more formalized plans, tend to be what people and ideas in dominance produce
- tactics is more ad hoc and temporary, a response
- tactic as strategy of the weak
- Innis and Foucault, time and space and privilege and control (Foucault and Bourdieu are the subtexts to this, panotptic mechanism)
- Space/time bias; his version of place is what people in power produce (eg urban planner); space is how people engage with it (people live in this environment)
- “Space is practiced place”
- sociological and technological – mediate our environment
- tactics – individual using? Cutting in to time? What is the diff between tactics and strategy? Is it up for debate? Could be used as a methodological tool – impossibility of capturing the way power operates within an institution by just looking at how an institution operates
- how people support – willingly or not – the furthering of the mission
- how would this revise what someone might say about any institution – museum, university, ect. Major presences in our contemporary life
- random, enforced, etc. conduct
- human agency and human body within institutions of power
- Art – surrealist, trad. Conception of the author and his or her inscription to the work, place of the museum; situationists reject this to center on performance in time, rejecting institutionalization