Quotes of Michel De Certeau - somelinesforyou

“ Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of its own possibilityspace itselfto be forgotten: space thus becomes the blind spot in a scientific and political technology. This is the way in which the Conceptcity functions: a place of transformations and appropriations, the object of various kinds of interference but also a subject that is constantly enriched by new attributes, it is simultaneously the machinery and the hero of modernity. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ 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

“ 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

“ As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. ”

- Michel De Certeau

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

- 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, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress. ”

- 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, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ 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

“ To walk is to lack a place. ”

- 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, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ 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

“ 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

“ One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying. ”

- Michel De Certeau

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

- Michel De Certeau

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

- Michel De Certeau

“ As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ 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

“ One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ To walk is to lack a place. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying. ”

- 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, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. ”

- Michel De Certeau
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