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““We travel abroad to discover in distant lands something whose presence at home has become unrecognisable.””

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“Far from being writers—founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language, diggers of…

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

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The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed…

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“His [the pedestrian's] elevation transfigures him into a voyeur. It puts his at a distance. It transforms the bewitching world by which one was…

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To walk is to lack a place.

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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…

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A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the…

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“I lettori sono viaggiatori: circolano sulle terre altrui.”

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When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of…

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“Their story begins on ground level, with footsteps. They are myriad, but do not compose a series. They cannot be counted because each unit…

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“Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of its own possibility--space itself--to be forgotten: space thus becomes the blind…

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One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without…

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Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

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