Practica Vida Cotidiana

Catalina: Viene algo clave en inglés pues no lo he encontrado en spanish. Los textos resaltados no son links sino solo subrayados o en dos o tres casos despliegan texto alt con alguna clave adicional para ti. Juego filosofico, fuente creadora. Este Migelito da en el clavo en algo que quiere el romanticismo y la razon supuestamente no podía explicar. Ahora se quiere y además se explica. Ahora se inspira, se practica y se teoriza en la misma onda de expansión. Arte ampliado. Conciencia expandida.

De Certeau:
“…The procedures of everyday creativity

A second orientation of our investigation can be explained by reference to Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. In this work, instead of analyzing the apparatus exercising power (i.e., the localizable, expansionist, repressive, and legal institutions), Foucault analyzes the mechanisms (dispositifs) that have sapped the strength of these institutions and subreptitiously reorganized the functioning of power: “miniscule” technical procedures acting on and with details, redistributing a discursive space in order to make it the means of a generalized “discipline” (surveillance).This approach raises a new and different set of problems to be investigated. Once again, however, this “microphysics of power” privileges the productive apparatus (which produces the “discipline”), even though it discerns in “education” a system of “repression” and shows how, from the wings as it were, silent technologies determine or short-circuit institutional stage directions. If it is true that the grid of “discipline” is everywhere becoming clearer and more extensive, it is all the more urgent to discover how an entire society resists being reduced to it, what popular procedures (also “miniscule” and quotidian) manipulate the mechanisms of discipline and conform to them only in order to evade them, and finally, what “ways of operating” form the counterpart, on the consumer’s (or “dominee’s”?) side, of the mute processes that organize the establishment of socioeconomic order.

These “ways of operating” constitute the innumerable practices by means of which users reappropriate the space organized by techniques of sociocultural production. They pose questions at once analogous and contrary to those dealt with in Foucault’s book: analogous, in that the goal is to perceive and analyze the microbe-like operations proliferating within technocratic structures and deflecting their functioning by means of a multitude of “tactics” articulated in the details of everyday life; contrary, in that the goal is not to make clearer how the violence of order is transmuted into a disciplinary technology, but rather to bring to light the clandestine forms taken by the dispersed, tactical, and makeshift creativity of groups or individuals already caught in the nets of “discipline:” Pushed to their ideal limits, these procedures and ruses of consumers compose the network of an antidiscipline which is the subject of this book…“

“…Trajectories, tactics, and rhetorics

As unrecognized producers, poets of their own acts, silent discoverers of their own paths in the jungle of functionalist rationality, consumers produce through their signifying practices something that might be considered similar to the “wandering lines” (“lignes derre”) drawn by the autistic children studied by F. Deligny: “indirect” or “errant” trajectories obeying their own logic. In the technocratically constructed, written, and functionalized space in which the consumers move about, their trajectories form unforeseeable sentences, partly unreadable paths across a space…”

The Practice of Everyday Life
Michel de Certeau

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