[POLS 2940] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (27 pages long!)
29 Mar 2017
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Week 12: is the financial crisis part of everyday life. Everyday life is where we live, where we produce our experience, and also not where we live because it doesn"t really occupy our attention - except of course, when it is disrupted. This means that there is an important sense in which our everyday life excludes politics. Being political presumes that you are making some kind of claim, a claim for recognition as an equal subject that disrupts your positioning as unequal, voiceless , not a subject. He believed that everyday was precisely what is left when the. "higher" activities of reflection, philosophy, planning and such are separated out from our daily lives. Because these "higher" activities can appear to be subjective part of our lives, everyday life appears to become an object from which our capacity for reflection has been abstracted.
