Michel De Certeau
Michel De Certeau
Michel De Certeau quotes about
individual grazing mass
The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
cities oddities opaque
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
walks walking
To walk is to lack a place.
technology cities process
Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie visual) simulacrum: in short, a picture, of which the preconditions for feasibility are forgetfulness and a misunderstanding of processes.