Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present

Cover......Page 1
Copywright......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 7
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
‘The Hardest Thing to Uncover’: Blanchot with Lefebvre......Page 27
The Ambiguity of the Everyday......Page 33
Types of Ambiguity: Lukacs, Heidegger, and Heller......Page 42
Genre and the Everyday: Resisting the Novel......Page 50
The Essay and the Everyday: Perec with Adorno......Page 59
From Baudelaire to Dada......Page 70
‘Plutot la vie’: Surrealist Vitalism......Page 77
In the City Streets: Experience and Experiment......Page 82
Everydayness and Self-Evidence......Page 89
The Photograph as Trigger and as Trace......Page 97
Boiffard’s Big Toes: The Challenge of Documents......Page 106
The Beneficence of Desire......Page 114
Michel Leiris and the Sacred in Everyday Life......Page 119
Andre Breton and the ‘Magique-circonstancielle’......Page 126
Queneau and the quotidien......Page 132
Coda: Walter Benjamin and the Everyday Legacies of Surrealism......Page 142
The 1947 Critique de la vie quotidienne......Page 145
The 1958 ‘Avant-propos’......Page 148
The 1961 Critique: Fondements pour une sociologie de la quotidiennete......Page 154
The Freedom of the City: Lefebvre, Debord, and the Situationists......Page 169
Beyond Mythologies......Page 186
Envisioning Fashion: Barthes, Benjamin, Baudrillard, and Others......Page 189
Changing Scale, Resisting Function......Page 204
Towards a new ‘art de vivre’......Page 208
‘Comment vivre ensemble’......Page 212
‘Chronique’ and Everyday Writing......Page 218
6. Michel de Certeau: Reclaiming the Everyday......Page 223
Consumption as Production......Page 224
The Power of the Ruse......Page 227
Practical Memory......Page 230
The Logic of Everyday Practices: Walking, Talking, Reading......Page 232
Narrativity, Historicity, Subjectivity: Certeau, Wittgenstein, and Cavell......Page 238
The Conservatoire of Ritual: Certeau and Maffesoli......Page 244
L’Invention du quotidien II: Habiter, Cuisiner......Page 248
7. Georges Perec: Uncovering the Infra-Ordinary......Page 259
Fables of Disconnection: Les Choses and Un Homme qui dort......Page 261
The Matrix of Lieux......Page 268
Three Days in the Place Saint-Sulpice......Page 272
Dispersal: Places and Memorie......Page 282
The Everyday in La Vie mode d’emploi......Page 290
8. After Perec: Dissemination and Diversification......Page 303
Proximate Ethnographies......Page 304
Urban Trajectories: Auge, Maspero, Ernaux, Reda......Page 316
The Proliferation of the Everyday: Mutation, Enunciation, and Genre......Page 345
9. Configuring the Everyday......Page 371
The Space of the Day......Page 375
Street Names......Page 386
Projects of Attention......Page 397
Bibliography......Page 410
Index......Page 426