"More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it……" — Michel de Certeau
"More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable."
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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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It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks…
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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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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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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with…
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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought…
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence:…
— Adrienne Rich
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows…
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Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the…
— Judith Levine
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History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill…
— Winston Churchill
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
— Adrienne Rich
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Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the…
— Luce Irigaray
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Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set…
— Erma Bombeck
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Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space…
— Joan Mitchell
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It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this…
— John Scott
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Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
— Annette Funicello
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