User:Ssstephen/Reading/The Practice of Everyday Life but the actual one
Consumer production
For example, the analysis of the images broadcast by television (representation) and of the time spent watching television (behavior) should be complemented by a study of what the cultural consumer "makes" or "does" during this time and with these images.
Is what the consumer makes also in the category of representation, what separates it from behaviour, is he implying there is something outside of these two categories. Culture is presented to me and I represent it. Receptive and generative modes, is the point just that these are not clearly active/passive roles and are more mushy into eachother?
"consumption"... is devious, it is dispersed, but it insinuates itself everywhere, silently and almost invisibly
This certainly sounds like active consumption. There dont seem to be any real examples here though. Is production also a type of consumption? What am I consuming when I produce? Environments, methodologies, inheritance, pollenation.
speaking operates within the field of a linguistic system; it effects an appropriation, or reappropriation, of language by its speakers; it establishes a present relative to a time and place; and it posits a contract with the other (the interlocutor) in a network of places and relations. These four characteristics of the speech act<3> can be found in many other practices (walking, cooking, etc.).
His point in the introduction that "a relation defines its terms" could be applied more extremely here I think. Is speaking something done to language by speakers, or are speech acts the girders that connect speakers in a structure called language. A walk is an episode that creates a route for a walker in a space. A cooking act is an event where recipes, ingredients, bodies, heat, etc come into a relation with eachother.
If it is true that the grid of "discipline" is everywhere becoming clearer and more extensive, it is all the more urgent to discover how an entire society resists being reduced to it, what popular procedures (also "miniscule" and quotidian) manipulate the mechanisms of discipline and conform to them only in order to evade them, and finally, what "ways of operating" form the counterpart, on the consumer's (or "dominee's"?) side, of the mute processes that organize the establishment of socioeconomic order.
The territory is becoming more and more like the map but it is not there are cracks and tears and smudges.
the goal is not to make clearer how the violence of order is transmuted into a disciplinary technology, but rather to bring to light the clandestine forms taken by the dispersed, tactical, and makeshift creativity of groups or individuals already caught in the nets of "discipline:"
Why do you want to bring this to light? Is it a good idea to produce something that reveals the occult exodisciplines (esodisciplines, paradisciplines) that consumers are using and making. Is there a tension between producer and consumer, and if so whose side are you on?
allowing the logic of unselfconscious thought to be taken seriously
Can we doubt ourselves while we doubt? Take as a departure point the possibility that you are imaginary.
must seek to restore to everyday practices their logical and cultural legitimacy
I guess this is the reason he wants to bring the practices into this world of writing, to give them a voice and legitimacy in this context. It feels a little like appropriation or domination in some way, of writing over other practices. Things that exist outside of words. Maybe its just translation but even then.
this cultural activity of the non-producers of culture, an activity that is unsigned, unreadable, and unsymbolized, remains the only one possible
inferior access to information, financial means, and compensations of all kinds elicits an increased deviousness, fantasy, or laughter.