CSCT 1CS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Temporal Logic, Michel De Certeau, Optical Illusion

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Course: CSCT 1CS3
• Professor: Jordan Sheridan

Document Summary

Everyday life in the city: michel de certeau. From tuesday: lefebvre and the everyday: the modern erasure of multiplicity: the choices by us are limited by capitalism, the everyday is a concept and a product, it is not a system but a common denominator. Michel de certeau: walking in the city : the city as a text, the practice of everyday life, humans of new york. De certeau"s answer to everyday life is practice. Multiple ways that we"re out of it. The system has a bunch of holes, finding the practices that gets us through them. De certeau came from new york, was amazed by the city. New york, saw that everyone was using space in every way imaginable (manhattan) He describes it from the top of the world trade center (looking up) at the skyline. The imaginary, science dictionary of a construct of a city, the different byways of a street, the textures of the city.