The document discusses sociologist Henri Lefebvre's critique of modern capitalist society and everyday life. It argues that everyday life has become routinized and alienating under consumerism and bureaucratic control. Needs are artificially created and manipulated to fuel constant consumption. Lefebvre calls for "revolutionizing" everyday life by making it a space for creative self-expression rather than imposed roles and transforming quotidian practices through resistance against mediatized influence.
Space is more than an empty container for things. It has its own features and forms: a psychogeography. It is created through movements and flows. Information technologies complicate spatiality by simulating space, contracting space with communication and locating actors in space. Remediations of spatiality are powerful features of technoculture.
Space is more than an empty container for things. It has its own features and forms: a psychogeography. It is created through movements and flows. Information technologies complicate spatiality by simulating space, contracting space with communication and locating actors in space. Remediations of spatiality are powerful features of technoculture.
Conceptualizing Rurality with Michel de Certeausbrown08
This SlideShare presentation contains a brief introduction to the ideas of Michael de Certeau and some possible avenues for reconnecting his work with the "cultural turn" in contemporary rural studies.
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
A model for applying social science to inform the design of product aesthetics. This is illustrated with an example: product aesthetics for the law enforcement market.
DBA #9 Designer's Journey - My Journey from Sociology into Business EcosystemsDesign Bootcamp Asia
My Journey from Sociology into Business Ecosystems by Nazish Zafar
Sociologists & anthropologists examine how our lives are shaped by society, and their research is often focused on uncovering these 'invisible' structures of influence.
Nazish will share some of the interesting projects she has done around the world, such as the study of orphanages in Russia, public health education in Brazil, interviewing families in high poverty neighbourhoods in Baltimore and, most recently, examining the small business and start-up economy in Singapore.
With a decade of academic research in Sociology, she shows us how she is applying her skills to the sphere of design thinking, with practical takeaways for everyone.
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
2009 a conceptual and analytical framework for interpreting the spatiality ...Lee Pugalis
This paper provides a framework for understanding the phenomenon of the discursive-material production of space, and also, for considering how unknowns may be organised. Language is instrumental to the production of place but has been overshadowed by investigations of material transformations. This is partly being redressed by the ‘linguistic turn’ in urban policy analysis over recent decades which recognise the performative aspects of language. However, the methodological ‘gap’ between discursivities and materialities remains as too often analysis of urban policy discourse has taken an aspatial analytic approach. Representations of space cannot be divorced from spatial practices and vice versa. Based on my premise that many visions, plans and strategies never materialise, and even some that do materialise have little bearing on what is produced, a mixed-method approach is required that considers the recursive interactions between spatial practices and representations of space. Grounded in the theories of Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault, which conceptualis space as a social process and broaden discourse to embrace spatial practice respectively, I devise a conceptual and operational analytics which I refer to as interpretive-spatial analysis with the goal of helping to bridge the problematic ontological, epistemological and methodological divide between discursivities and materialities.
Conceptualizing Rurality with Michel de Certeausbrown08
This SlideShare presentation contains a brief introduction to the ideas of Michael de Certeau and some possible avenues for reconnecting his work with the "cultural turn" in contemporary rural studies.
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
A model for applying social science to inform the design of product aesthetics. This is illustrated with an example: product aesthetics for the law enforcement market.
DBA #9 Designer's Journey - My Journey from Sociology into Business EcosystemsDesign Bootcamp Asia
My Journey from Sociology into Business Ecosystems by Nazish Zafar
Sociologists & anthropologists examine how our lives are shaped by society, and their research is often focused on uncovering these 'invisible' structures of influence.
Nazish will share some of the interesting projects she has done around the world, such as the study of orphanages in Russia, public health education in Brazil, interviewing families in high poverty neighbourhoods in Baltimore and, most recently, examining the small business and start-up economy in Singapore.
With a decade of academic research in Sociology, she shows us how she is applying her skills to the sphere of design thinking, with practical takeaways for everyone.
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
2009 a conceptual and analytical framework for interpreting the spatiality ...Lee Pugalis
This paper provides a framework for understanding the phenomenon of the discursive-material production of space, and also, for considering how unknowns may be organised. Language is instrumental to the production of place but has been overshadowed by investigations of material transformations. This is partly being redressed by the ‘linguistic turn’ in urban policy analysis over recent decades which recognise the performative aspects of language. However, the methodological ‘gap’ between discursivities and materialities remains as too often analysis of urban policy discourse has taken an aspatial analytic approach. Representations of space cannot be divorced from spatial practices and vice versa. Based on my premise that many visions, plans and strategies never materialise, and even some that do materialise have little bearing on what is produced, a mixed-method approach is required that considers the recursive interactions between spatial practices and representations of space. Grounded in the theories of Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault, which conceptualis space as a social process and broaden discourse to embrace spatial practice respectively, I devise a conceptual and operational analytics which I refer to as interpretive-spatial analysis with the goal of helping to bridge the problematic ontological, epistemological and methodological divide between discursivities and materialities.
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2 Need and Purpose,
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4. ** Lefebvre: - Understand EDL through a philosophical perspective. - Criticizes the function of the society of consumption , which considers creative ability as unimportant . - Considers that the population must free itself from its quotidian. - Emphasizes that the population is unconsciously reproducing roles imposed on them by the dominant classes. - Stresses how capitalist system of production creates imaginary needs - Criticizes the bureaucratic approach.
5. French Industrial Revolution Development of urbanization Acceleration of consumerism Evolution of modern capitalism Everyday life
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7. Categorization of Society: Functions= institutions Structures= groups and strategies Forms= Systems and channels, media of information, censorship etc.
8. Today ideologies have changed and they bear names such as functionalism, formalism, structuralism, operationalism or scientism; they parade as non ideologies in order to merge more readily with the imagination; they disguise the basic fact- or factual basis- that everything stems from everyday life which in turn reveals everything, or in other words, that the critical analysis of everyday life reveals everything because it takes everything into account.
9. - Everyday life, when properly organized, provides a closed circuit of (production-consumption-production), where demands are foreseen because they are encouraged. * The only way to stop the circuit from closing is to conquer the quotidian, attack it and transform it by making use of another form of strategy.
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11. “ Science should not be entitled to provide intellectuals, technicians and highly officials with a clear conscience- not an inconvenient commodity and highly quoted on the market- for there is nothing worse than a clear conscience that has been rationalized, institutionalized and bureaucratized by science ; we have no qualms in asserting that it is the rotten fruit on the tree of science.”
12. Needs are seen as clearly defined gaps , neatly outlined hollows to be stopped up and filled in by consumption and the consumer, until satiety is achieved. Satisfaction-dissatisfaction , both states being produced by similar manipulations.
13. * Obsolescence of needs should be taken into consideration, for those who manipulate objects to make them less durable, needs must become outdated and new needs take their place; this is the strategy of desire .
14. * Productive power is such that it would now already be possible to achieve an extreme fluidity of existence, of objects, dwellings, towns and of “living” so that real life need not still stagnate in everyday life. Obsolescence uses transitoriness as a means of exploiting everyday life.
15. Society has rational aims and pretensions however irrationality thrives and prospers like witchcraft, fortune teller, horoscopes etc. -Perhaps they hope in this roundabout way to adapt their desires, discover and orient them . -A zone of ambiguity is established half way between belief and make-believe . -Man’s adaptation to his desire is arrested mid way between the real and the possible, between experience and make-believe.
16. -Escapism is inevitable between the contradiction of satisfaction and dissatisfaction. -Tourist organizations, institutionalism, programming, setting in motion of vast controlled migrations save satiety. -Festivals
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18. * Publicity is based on the imaginary existence of things; it evokes them and involves a rhetoric and a poetry superimposed on the art of consuming and inherent in its image.
19. * As soon as the quotidian is presented as a system, it collapses and is seen to be meaningless, a collection of non-meanings, to which we try to append a meaning; indeed everyday insignificance can only be meaningful when transformed into something other than everyday life. It is not possible to construct a theoretical and practical system such that the details of everyday life will become meaningful in and by this system. -There is no system because there are so many sub-systems situated, as we have seen, not within a single system but at different levels of reality. -The only system sufficiently comprehensive to be worthy of the name is the system of substitutes , which upholds a system that only exist in words.
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21. -A car is not merely a material object with certain technical advantages, a socio-economic means and medium involving demands and compulsions. -It brings up a hierarchy , determined by size, cost, power, performance etc. -It is a status symbol , it is consumed as a sign in addition to its practical use.
22. -Publicity describes objects intended for a specific use and possessing a trade value, in a manner such as to induce the consumer to buy. -To inform, to describe and provoke desire, promising happiness, the happiness of being a consumer.
23. - Publicity represent a whole attitude of life. - Manipulates you on how to life, how to dress, how to exist; you are thoroughly programmed yet you still have to choose between so many good things.
24. Gündeliklik , donuk bir yaşamsal gerçekliğin temsili değil, devingen yaşamsal deneyimlerin, sürekli eskime ve yenilenmenin, yabancılaşma yı ortadan kaldıracak farklı perspektifleri mümkün kılacak düşünme ve direnme biçimlerinin de döngüsel olarak yaşandığı bir yer ve karmaşık bir nesnel gerçeklikler alanıdır. Düşünce yoluyla eleştirilebilecek bir gerçeklik olan gündeliklik, eleştirel bakış açılarının ısrarcı ve sarsıcı gücüyle yaşamsal gerçekliği değiştirebilir. * “ Gündelik yaşamdaki devrim ”le kastettiği şey, bireyin kendi yaşamını bir yapıt olarak kurgulayıp yaşaması; gündelik yaşamsal deneyimin sürekli bir eleştirel tutumla zenginleştirilmesi ve gündelik pratiklere egemen kılınması durumudur.
25. Modernlik , gündelikliğin durağanlığını ve açmazlarını damgalarken aynı zamanda telafi eder, kendini macera tutkusundan yoksun bırakmaz. “ Bürokratik olarak yönlendirilmiş tüketim toplumu” ise bu tutkuyu yinelenen ruitnler ve kalıplaşmış değer ve pratikler Içinde boğmuştur.
26. *** Lefebvre’in önerileri -Dünyanın etik açıdan iyileştirilmesine odaklanır. - Gündelik yaşamın yabancılaşmamış ve yaratıcı etkinliklerin alanı olarak yeniden kavramsallaştırılması - Gündelik pratikler, toplumsal yaşamın yeniden üretiminde hayati bir öneme sahiptir. - Pratikleri medyatik baştan çıkarmanın etkisinden kurtarmak, direnme gücünü yeniden ayaklandırmaktan geçmektedir. - Medyatik sistem: buyurgan, yabancılaştırıcı - “ Dönüşmeyi, başkalaşmayı ” istemek gerekmektedir. - Düşünsel açıdan yeniden kurgulanmalı.