Quotes by Michel de Certeau

Michel de Certeau

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

Long

Memories

Sleep

A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the possibility of two thing being in the same location (place). The law of the ‘proper’ rules in the place: the elements taken into consideration are beside one another, each situated in its own ‘proper’ and distinct location, a location it defines. A place is thus an instantaneous configuration of positions. It implies an indication of stability.

Law

Order

Taken

Along with the lazy man… the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Death

Lazy Man

Men

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

Absence

Gaps

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject’s investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Believe

Etc

Firsts

Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact… The city panorama is a theoretical (ie visual) simulacrum: in short, a picture, of which the preconditions for feasibility are forgetfulness and a misunderstanding of processes.

Cities

Process

Technology

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

Everyday

Poaching

Way

First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further), than the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them exist as well as emerge. But he also moves them about and he invents others, since the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform, or abandon spatial elements.

Journey

Moving

Wall

It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners’, everyday citizens’] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and alterations of spaces: in relation to representations, it remains daily and indefinitely other.

Moving

Practice

Writing

It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

Hiking

Journey

Space

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Able

Absence

Absent

Art

Beautiful

Believe

Cities

Communism

Dancer

Death

Demonstration

Etc

Everyday

Firsts

Gaps

Grazing

Hiking

Individual

Journey

Law

Lazy Man

Leaks

Long

Mass

Mean

Media

Memories

Men

Moving

New York

Oblivion

Oddities

Opaque

Opposites

Order

Pain

Past

Poaching

Practice

Process

Real

Religious

Secret

Sick

Sleep

Space

Stories

Subtle

Taken

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Quotes by Michel de Certeau

Michel de Certeau

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

Along with the lazy man… the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject’s investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact… The city panorama is a theoretical (ie visual) simulacrum: in short, a picture, of which the preconditions for feasibility are forgetfulness and a misunderstanding of processes.

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

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