Michel De Certeau

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

— Michel De Certeau

#life

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#life

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 makes itself available to be worked on by others. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#available #does #dying #even #former

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#become #believing #churches #once #organizations

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#constituting #everywhere #formerly #great #great silence

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#each #freedom #grazing #individual #left