Michel de Certeau

Posted on 2015/10/05 by

Out of my mentions

What qualifies as “knowledge-making”? [1]  What are the determining factors? Credentials? Context? Who can participate? the intellectual Only? And if only: who counts as an intellectual? Can activists be intellectuals? Do their blogging practices count as knowledge-making? Do intellectuals tweet? @bad_dominicana [+] [+] [+] @apihtawikosisan [+] [+] @BlackAmazon [+] @FeministaJones [+] @ChiefElk [+] Activist twitter accounts use the application to Read More

Posted on 2015/10/02 by

On the Oppositional Practices of The Real Housewives

The conflict between practice and theory, between doing and producing knowledge about the practice itself, is the core problematic of Michel de Certeau’s “On the Oppositional Practices of Everyday Life.” In his theorization of the everyday – or, rather, the methodologies employable to produce knowledge about the everyday – he posits that the knowledge of Read More