Birth: May 17, 1925 Death: January 9, 1986
They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulatin….
Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others..
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, info….
The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric….
The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderst….
A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories..
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stori….
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 paying..
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem….
To walk is to lack a place..
A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the po….
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 make….
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kand….
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of th….
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable..
It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation..
To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper..
An absence of meaning opens a gap in time..
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….
Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie visual) sim….
The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transfo….