Michel de Certeau's The Practice of Everyday Life theorizes strategies used by producers of culture and tactics used by ordinary consumers to subvert the dominant economic order. De Certeau argues that consumption is a form of hidden production, as consumers creatively adapt and use products according to their own interests rather than just passively accepting them. He aims to understand culture through analyzing the relations between consumers and producers and the ways consumers operationalize products through everyday practices like cooking, watching television, and using communication technologies. De Certeau sees these everyday tactics as a form of agency that users exercise within dominant structures of power.
de Certeau, Michel ‘Making Do: Uses and Tactics’ in Martyn J. Lee (ed.) The Consumer Society Reader, Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass., USA: Blackwell, 2000, pp.: 162-174.
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de Certeau, Michel ‘Making Do: Uses and Tactics’ in Martyn J. Lee (ed.) The Consumer Society Reader, Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass., USA: Blackwell, 2000, pp.: 162-174.
my report in Anthro 273: Seminar in Urban Anthropology at the Anthropology Department, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman - elective for the PhD Media Studies program at the College of Mass Communication
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Mini-research: Pierre BOURDIEU’S THEORIES in relation to organizational behav...Fernanda Vasconcelos Dias
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Organizational Behavior in Educational Settings
Professor: Dr. Kate Way
Student: Fernanda Vasconcelos Dias
March 07,2016
Presentation of Erving Goffman`s dramaturgical approach.
SEMINAR FOR FIRST-YEAR PHD/EDD STUDENTS - FALL 2009 & WINTER 2010 University of Calgary
I will be happy to share the full text for this presentation if you need it. Contact me avatarnadezda@gmail.com
Cultural studies is a field of theoretically, politically, and empirically engaged cultural analysis that concentrates upon the political dynamics of contemporary culture, its historical foundations, defining traits, conflicts, and contingencies.
Cultural studies views cultures not as fixed, bounded, stable, and discrete entities, but rather as constantly interacting and changing sets of practices and processes.
The field of cultural studies encompasses a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives and practices. Although distinct from the discipline of cultural anthropology and the interdisciplinary field of ethnic studies, cultural studies draws upon and has contributed to each of these fields
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1. The Practice of Everyday LifeMichel de Certeau G205 Week 10- Cierra Thomas-Williams Returning to our beginnings and the question of culture…..what is it?
4. Displaces academic assertions of passive consumption and spectatorship (Adorno) to creative and tactical use of products (Benjamin, de Certeau, Bordieu, Foucault). (Culture/culture, art/popular culture, elite/masses, xiii-xiv).
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6. This practice—the everyday practice—does not directly concern "individuality" or "the subjects," rather it offers "modes of operation or schemata of action," or more precisely "an operational logic.“
7. Everyday life is inseparable from economics, but de Certeau disagrees with Marxists that humans engage only through “commodity fetishism.”review critical terms: audience, spectator, consumer
8. General Introduction - What is the project? Consumption, or usage are everyday practice: the "investigation of ways in which users operate," or "ways of operating," or doing things. (Making Do) “Ways of operating are necessary to be explicated in the process of representation as well as ‘consumption,’ a hidden production by its users” (xiv). Thus he elaborates the schema of "relations between consumers and the mechanism of production" distinguishing two nodes of power: strategies and tactics. (building upon previous cultural studies) everyday practice should not be concealed "as merely the obscure background of social activity," but it is necessary to "penetrate this obscurity" and to "articulate" everyday life. What is de Certeau insinuating about theories of culture in the academy?
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10. "the time spent watching television”– what about internet and cell phones? how do you occupy your space and time?The consumption, which is "devious, dispersed and insinuates itself everywhere,"with certain impositions of a dominant economic order, "does not manifest itself through its own products, but rather through its ways of using the products" (475). Thus, de Certeau contravenes “commodity fetishism” in Marxism—a structuralist argument—with his cultural studies approach to popular culture.
11. 1. Usage, or Consumptionin Consumer Production Four characteristics of speech act or speaking (mode of practice): "speaking operates within the field of a linguistic system“ speaking "affects an appropriation, or re-appropriation, of language by its speaker“ speaking "establishes a present relative to a time and place.” speaking "posits a contract with the other in a network of places and relations.“ The objective of these four characteristics "presumes that users make innumerable and infinitesimal transformations of and within the dominant cultural economy in order to adopt it to their own interests and their own rules," which de Certeau posits determinants of this "collective activity.” Therefore, we can see that everyday practices allow for an understanding of agency with dominant structures, such as globalized communication technology. de Certeau argues, “users make bricolent.” (xiii)
12. 2. The Procedures of Everyday Creativity - Consumer Production Foucault argues that power is relational—meaning power is everywhere and can be observed through discourse. de Certeau illustrates the relationship between dominant producers of popular culture is exercised as a technology of power, but so are the “ways of operating” through innumerable practices. - No outside to power - Xiv- Surveillance and discipline (Foucault) - Panopticon xv – VIOLENCE OF ORDER (see Foucault example) Review critical terms: hegemony.
13. Example to explain a bit of Foucault Discipline and Punish From True Grit Hegemony - dominant classes maintain their power through achieving legitimacy and by winning consent. Rule becomes commonplace, commonsense, and simply “the way things are.” Depends upon negotiation, stability, consensus. A continual process between hegemonic and counterhegemonic forces. These result in a synthesis through negotiation, stability, and consensus.
14. 3. The Formal Structure of Practice in Consumer Production In order to convey "the formal structure of these practices," de Certeau points out two sorts of investigations: 1. The first sort of investigation, "descriptive in nature," concerns "certain ways of making" selected with "the value for the strategy of the analysis“ and with "a view obtaining fairly differentiated variants" (477) "to trace the intricate forms of the operations proper to the recomposition of a space by familial practices“ "to the tactics of the art of cooking which simultaneously organizes a network of relations, poetic ways of 'making do' and a re-use of marketing structure“ 2. Action, time, and modalization, these three determinations makes possible an exploration of the cultural field, which is defined by an investigative problematics, seeking "to situate the types of operations”:(478) consumption in the framework of an economy to discern in these practices of appropriation & indexes of the creativity
15. 4. The Marginality of the majority in Consumer Production 1."Marginality is no longer limited to minority groups but is rather massive and pervasive," and becoming universal. Marginal group becomes a silent majority (479). 2. "The procedures allowing the re-use of product are linked together in a kind of obligatory language, and their functioning is related to social relations and power relationships." 3. "The necessity of differentiating both the 'actions' or 'engagements' that system of products effects within the consumer grid and the various kinds of room to maneuver left for consumers¨ 4. "The relation of procedures to the fields of force in which they act must therefore lead to a polemological analysis of culture" a. culture articulates conflicts b. culture legitimizes, displaces, or controls the superior force. c. culture develops in an atmosphere of tensions, and often of violence, for which provides symbolic balances, contracts of compatibility and compromises.
16. Strategy (1) The "proper" is a triumph of place over time. It allows one to capitalize acquired advantages, to prepare future expansion, and thus to give oneself a certain independence with respect to the variability of circumstances. It is a mastery of time through the foundation of an autonomous place. (2) It is also a mastery of places through sight. The division of space makes possible a panoptic practice proceeding from a place whence the eye can transform foreign forces into objects that can be observed and measured, and thus control and "include" them within its scope of vision.T o be able to see (far into the distance) isalsoto be able to predict, to run ahead of time by reading a space. (3) It would be legitimate to define the power of knowledge by this ability to transform the uncertainties of history into readable spaces. But it would be more correct to recognize in these "strategies" a specific type of knowledge, one sustained and determined by the power to provide oneself with one's place.(36) Strategy is "the calculus of force-relationships, when a subject of will and power can be isolated from an environment,"
17. Trajectories, Tactics, and Rhetorics Tactic is "a calculus which cannot count on a proper, nor thus on a borderline distinguishing the other as a visible totality," rather insinuating itself into "the other's place." A tactic depends on time and "must constantly manipulate events in order to turn them into opportunities." (480) Tactics are procedures that gain validity in relation to the pertinence they lend to time--to the circumstances which the precise instant of an intervention transforms into a favorable situation, to the rapidity of the movements that change the organization of a space, to the relations among successive moments in an action, to the possible intersections of durations and heterogeneous rhythms, etc.(38)
18. The Tactics of Practice The scheme of the relations between consumers and the mechanisms of production has been diversified in relation to three kinds of concerns: the search for a problematic that could articulate the material collected the description of a limited number of practices considered to be particularly significant the extension of the analysis of these everyday operations to scientific fields A tactic is a calculated action, determined by the absence of a proper locus. No delimitation of an exteriority, then provides it with the condition necessary for autonomy. The space of a tactic is the space of the other. Thus it must play on and with a terrain imposed on it and organized by the law of a foreign power...(36-7)
19. Questions for General Introduction and “Making Do”: Uses and Tactics What is culture? How does the economy fit in to our definition of culture? What is a cultural studies approach to popular culture? What is popular culture? How does popular culture differ from Culture? How does a reader differ from a spectator? How do we differentiate mass culture from popular culture?
20. The Practice of Everyday Life de Certeau, Michel."General Introduction." The Practice of Everyday Life.Trans. Steven F. Rendail.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.xi-xxiv. --."'Making Do':Uses and Tactics."The Practice of Everyday Life.Trans. Steven F. Rendail.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.29-42.
Editor's Notes
Peiss, Friedan, Rooks, Lutz and Collins all give us different methods for understanding mass culture, advertising an magazines. In some way each of these books work against the notion of the passive consumer. Certainly in this class we have emphasized deep analysis versus passive watching.
A Marxist analysis argue that human consciousness is united, understood, and engaged through work.
Look at text xiii-xiv
Continuing with studies of popular culture or marginal groups,de Certeau further draws out preliminary principles or determinations ofthe investigation of everyday practice.
Continuing with studies of popular culture or marginal groups,de Certeau further draws out preliminary principles or determinations ofthe investigation of everyday practice.definition of hegemony next slide