La Raison technicienne croit savoir comment organiser au mieux les choses et les gens, assignant à chacun une place, un rôle, des produits à consommer. Mais l'homme ordinaire ...

Annotation Introduces students to the discipline with 38 essays, most edited from their original appearance for space and to clarify them for neophytes. During (English, U. of ...

From the late Michel de Certeau comes an essential engagement with multiculturalism and identity politics. De Certeau stresses that anyone attempting to understand contemporary ...

Michel de Certeau died on January 9, 1986, leaving behind him the memory of an "intelligence without bounds" (Roger Chartier) and of "one of the boldest, the most secret, and ...

de Certeau is often considered to be the theorist of everyday life par excellence. This book provides an unrivalled critical introduction to de Certeau's work and influence and ...

From the seventeenth-century attempts to formulate a "history of man" to Freud's "Moses and Monotheism, " de Certeau examines the West's changing conceptions of the role and ...

Cartography and cinema are what might be called locational machinery. Maps and movies tell their viewers where they are situated, what they are doing, and, to a strong degree ...