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Michel de Certeau
6 quotes
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.”