"It is as though the practices organizing a……" — Michel de Certeau
"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."
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Michel de Certeau
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24 Quotes by Michel de Certeau
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The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion…
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded…
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An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.
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A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless…
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It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
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The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of…
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Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
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When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most…
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More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
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The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become…
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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as…
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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
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Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are…
— William S. Burroughs
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Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be…
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The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the…
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"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which…
— Max Wertheimer
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It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations…
— Paul Davies
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That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally…
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Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs;…
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Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is…
— Nick Nolte
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The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn’t fit, you make alterations.
— Linda Hunt
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How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable.…
— Michael Crichton
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