Michel De Certeau Quotes
First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further), than the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them exist as well as emerge. But he also moves them about and he invents others, since the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform, or abandon spatial elements.
De Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Rendall, University of California Press, 1984, p. 98.
Ms. Jones seemed to turn up wherever there was a major strike or labor dispute throughout the country. She literally had no home but went from one labor dispute to another. Most people on the management side did not know how to cope with this little old homeless lady who was a passionate labor orator and organizer.
Michel de Certeau SJ was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences. He was known as the philosopher of everyday life and widely regarded as a historian with interests ranging from travelogues of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to contemporary urban life.
