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vaporization's review against another edition
every sentence makes you want to jump off a cliff to escape the convoluted grammar and vocabulary that ends up saying nothing in the end. I am begging French people to calm down. just because your language has a lot of words doesn't mean you have to use the entire lexicon in a single book.
you have to read each sentence like five times to get what it means. and then you finally get what it's trying to say but then it ends up making no sense because it's so abstract that there is no human way to comprehend it. I don't care if there are interesting ideas you would rather wish you were illiterate than read this. if your ideas can't be easily communicated maybe they're not that good.
you have to read each sentence like five times to get what it means. and then you finally get what it's trying to say but then it ends up making no sense because it's so abstract that there is no human way to comprehend it. I don't care if there are interesting ideas you would rather wish you were illiterate than read this. if your ideas can't be easily communicated maybe they're not that good.
trekbicycles's review against another edition
4.0
One of my favorite books I read for my theory class so far. At times, it got bogged down (reinterpretations of Bourdieu and Foucault). But when it was just de Certeau — no trying to flaunt his acumen of other theorists — it was a lovely read. Will be thinking about pieces of this for a while!
carrie_grace_doss's review against another edition
My analytical theory class only read this selection for the De Certeau materials. I only skimmed the other authors.
cjazzlee's review against another edition
4.0
I echo some of the previous readers' comments about the density and difficulty of De Certeau's sentences - I had to look up words in the dictionary 3 times in one sentence at some point, and this was at the graduate school level. However, I also love love his metaphor of walking in the city as a way of affirming individual ways of doing life, of seeing, of choosing, of practicing everyday life, in contrast to mainstream ways that society is constructed, as expressed in the metaphor by the set routes and paths laid out for us in a typical city grid. There are so many ways this idea applies to discourses of power, identity, memory and a myriad of other areas we look at in life and were challenged to look at in grad school. I want to take another stab at the way he approached Derrida - difficult but I think it will be worth mining for ideas.
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