Michel de Certeau - The Practice of Everyday Life 0
de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven Rendall. Berkeley: U. California, 1988.
Much of this study has been fully integrated into theory; however, it is useful to see the roots of the study of everyday activity.
INTRODUCTION
Not focused on individual but the network of social interactions and their accompanying activities and ways of operating.
Emphasizes that we should not just be focused on what is being watched, but how the audience uses what they watch or consume. Making and using.
Very much interested in studying the everyday as a way of documenting resistance to dominant hegemony.
de Certeau aligns himself with Foucault with a crucial difference. He sees his focus on practice as similar to Foucault’s focus on mechanisms of power. But de Certeau believes what is remarkable about the disciplinary society is that “an entire society resists being reduced to it” (xiv). Is this really true?
Critiques statistical analysis and scientific discourse for being concerned witht he material of practice but not the form.