De Certeau
By Andy Doro and Nick Hasty


Walking in the City
* Voyeur God / Solar Eye
* Immense texturology of concept city
* A viewpoint and nothing more

Voyeur
* Panoptic/Disciplinary/Power and Architecture
* Cartographic
* Urban Planning/Management
* Objective/Visual
* Reading, not writing
* Legible City-City as Text
* Geometrical/Geographical
* Theoretical/Utopian
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Walker
* Wandersmänner
* Write, not read. Blind
* Subjective
* Mythic / poetic / anthropological
* Walking as Speech Act
* Understood as the “subject” in technocratic society
* Consumer reappropriating space of product system
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“City” as Operational Concept
* transformation of urban “fact” into “concept”
* (re)production of its own space, metabolism
* nowhen, synchronic system
* universal and anonymous subject
* administration and waste products
* privileges time over space (space as blind spot)
* machinery/hero modernity

Decay of concept city
* Misfortunes of theory into theories of misfortunes
* Bewilderment into catastrophes/panic
* Other paths: illegitimate systems
* Rise of the suppressed/ waste/ “surreptitious creativities”
* Reciprocal of structures of power

Strategies
* Strategies-operations of systems of power
* Long term in nature-overarching plan
* Focus on gain, profit,
* Military commander
* Creates distinctions and force relationships- “self” vs. “other” / interior vs exterior
* Model for political, economic, and scientific rationality
* Proper uses, meanings, and names

Tactics
* Used by individual in everyday experience/practice
* Creation of personal space within strategized space
* Tricks, Maneuvers & “ways of operating”utilizing what’s immediate and at hand - opportunity based
* Unreadable/ Invisible/ Untraceable/Poetic
* Brownian motion/way to “produce” (space) within society of consumption / creation of
opportunities
* Spatial practice  that manipulates discipline, strategy, proper use
* Secretly structure social life

Walking as Speech Act
* appropriation - topographical system / language
* acting out/walking as enunciation
* relational - between spaces / interlocutors
* style and rhetoric of walking
* way of being and operating, subversions of meaning
* Language and architecture

Names & Symbols
* Discourse of power creates own lack/void-production of free play
* “Proper” names become detached by spatial practices-open into liberated spaces to be occupied
* These detached meanings direct and decorate, create non-sanctioned meanings-superstitions
* play within defined places, crack in system- semantic/poetic overlays and excesses / anti-text
* Totalitarians seek to suppress overlay with numbered streets and street numbers
* “Metaphoric city” = memories, stories, and personal relationships to space invert panoptic

Spatial Stories
* Stories create links, relationships and organize places
* Narrative structures are like spatial syntaxes
* Every story is a spatial practice involving everyday tactics
* stories, news reports, legends, history, memories- narrated journeys/walks
* movement, traveling through space creates a narrative
* arises from examining spatial order, just as speech acts arose after the examination of
linguistic systems
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Place vs. Space
* PLACE: point, defines location, two things cannot occupy same place, proper relationships,
geometrical
* SPACE: vector, direction, velocity, time, intersections, dimensions, word when spoken, practiced
place, anthropological, existential, Descriptive operations
* Itineraries vs Maps-story/narrative vs symbolic representation-rise of map with scientific
discourse

Stories, Space, and Boundaries bbBoundairesFrontiersBoundaries
* Stories as operations to mark out boundaries, contracts-culturally creative act-founds spaces
* Authorize/establish. set oppositions.
* Differentiation of space creates structure between legitimate space and alien exteriority
* paradoxically creates points of contact/communication
* Descriptive variations of the story
* Place = being-there , Space = operations
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Frontiers vs. Bridges
* FRONTIER:  point of contact between known/inside/self and the beyond/alien/other-an
in-between-without specific ownership
* BRIDGE: ambiguous. welds together and opposes insularities. liberates from enclosure and destroys
autonomy. the diabolical, betrayal of order. Site of transgression

Delinquent Stories
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* Narrative = topological vs topical-deforms figures rather than defines place, Describes movement
* Exists in interstices of code -disrupts boundaries
* Privilege “tour” type descriptions over stating of locations
* Inscription of the body in the order’s text-spatial stories, spoken language, practiced place
* Liquifies boundaries, become metaphors
* Nomadism, pirate kingdoms, illegitimate spaces