The Practice of Everyday Life

In honour of World Book Day, one of my faves, Michel de Certeau's series of philosophical essays on the everyday ways of doing things so that they "no longer appear as the obscure background of social activity."

A quote from Chapter VII "Walking in the City:"

Their story begins on ground level, with footsteps. They are myriad, but do not compose a series. They cannot be counted because each unit has a qualitative character: a style of tactile apprehension and kinesthetic appropriation. Their swarming mass is an innumerable collection of singularities. Their intertwined paths give shape to spaces. They weave places together. In that respect, pedestrian movements form one of these 'real systems whose existence in fact makes up the city.'

Not everyone's cup of tea, so thanks for indulging me :>