"The created order is everywhere punched and torn……" — Michel de Certeau
"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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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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More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
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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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The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.
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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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