Michel de Certeau

Quotes

• “Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that c...”
• “It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens']...”
• “To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to...”
• “When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyr...”
• “The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is...”
• “Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive.”