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daniel perlin itp thesis presentation 2005. I.Every_Day. “Modernity and the everyday constitute a deep structure that a critical analysis can work to uncover.” - Henri Lefevbre “The everyday and everydayness ”.
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“Modernity and the everyday constitute a deep structure that a critical analysis can work to uncover.”-Henri Lefevbre“The everyday and everydayness”
“Far from being local, and thus classifiable, revolt, [everyday practice] is a common and silent, almost sheeplike subversion-our own.”Michel de Certeu“The practice of Everyday Life”
Absence presented through prosthesis, electronic voices Helio Oiticica Tropicalia, 1966
[The Uncanny:]...as a very good instance [one] 'doubts whether an apparently animate being is really alive; or conversely, whether a lifeless object might not in fact be animate'; and he refers in this connection to the impression made by waxwork figures, ingeniously constructed dolls and automata. To these he adds the uncanny effect of epileptic fits, and of manifestations of insanity, because these excite in the spectator the impression of automatic, mechanical processes at work behind the ordinary appearance of mental activity--The 'Uncanny', pt II. Sigmund Freud, 1919.
'...everything is unheimlich that ought to have remained secret and hidden but has come to light.’Sigmund Freud, ‘Uncanny’, pt II 1919
What prompted the project was the surprise that I experienced when I read the interview in which Heidegger was asked to describe the nature of his relationship with National Socialism, and he said he didn'treally have a relationship, all he did was take a call from the SA storm trooper.... And that is what prompted me to look to the telephone and to think about its place (or nonplace) or repressed functions in thinking. My question was how you would write the history of a non-relation, which is what Heidegger was asserting. There was a crucial non-relation. It has a history. It's called the telephone. It appeared to require a kind of inclination toward a subterranean history. I asked: What is this place of non-disclosure that doesn't allow for delusions of transparency or immediacy? ---Avital Ronell
“Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.”Mark Twain