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 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

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

It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

- 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…

- 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…

- Michel De Certeau

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

- Michel De Certeau

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

- Michel De Certeau