Making Do: Uses and Tactics

Chapter III Making Do: Uses and Tactics (1984), The Practice of Everyday Life, LA:University of California Press. (French version was published in 1980)

Moderators:

• Yiorgos Bagakis
• Inge Hoonte
• Laura Macchini

Keywords:

Summary of key points raised in the text:

• Tactics Vs Strategies
• Strategies: They can produce, tabulate, and impose spaces when the various types of operation take place
• Tactics: They can only use, manipulate and divert these spaces
• Types of operation: ways of walking, reading, producing, speaking, etc.
• The relations between consumers and the mechanism of production Thousand of people buy newspapers, magazines in supermarkets and urban spaces, watch TV..But what do they make of what they absorb? What do they do with it?

to be continued...

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