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 a wall that prevents one from going further), than the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them exist as well as emerge. But he also moves them about and he invents others, since the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform, or abandon spatial elements.
An absence of meaning opens a gap in time. - Michel De Certeau
An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.
- Michel De Certeau
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, info… - Michel De Certeau
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… - Michel De Certeau
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…
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… - Michel De Certeau
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…
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stori… - Michel De Certeau
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stori…
It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation. - Michel De Certeau
It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulatin… - Michel De Certeau
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. - Michel De Certeau
Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories. - Michel De Certeau
A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.
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