Notes
General notes: Argues for seeing media (in a broad sense e.g. proverbs) more like tools, more around the actions that people do with them.
- Xii: consumption might be seen as passive but often means creative adaptopn
- XIII: what is the representation for its users? (and not the official version that circulates)
- XIII “Process of Utilization”
- XIIff frames of dominance of media makers (XVI, XVII)
- XVII the majority as marginal non producers
- XXI reading ans production and “making text habitable”
- 19 Metis: “practical intelligence”
- 20 Problem of taking media out of context. Compares: Collecting media of one kind (Proverbs) as allowing analysis but leading to the context-problem: When, Who, Why do people use (or play with) proverbs in daily practice? Such research privileges discourses over acts (see also: 62, 64)
- 21 What do the imprints of acts on things (wear) of phrases tell? “Like tools, proverbs (and other discourses) are marked by uses; they offer to analysis the imprints of acts or of processes of enunciation;14 they signify the operations whose object they have been, operations which are relative to situations and which can be thought of as the conjunctural modalizations of statements or of practices;15 more generally, they thus indicate a social historicity in which systems of representations or processes of fabrication no longer appear only as normative frameworks but also as tools manipulated by users.”
- 30 Strategies create, synthesize, impose spaces; tactics divert and manipulate them
- 36 Strategy: Space, isolated, “proper”, powerful, keeps, makes circumstances, fight time.
Tactic: time, embedded, improper, powerless, can’t keep, use circumstances and time. - 38 Strategy bets on place
Tactics bet on Time. - 54 Bourdieu describing ways to make social “things” comparable
- 57 Bourdieus habitus as “exteritorization of achievements”
- 65 Method: “Since the sixteenth century, the idea of method has progressively overturned the relation between knowing and doing: on a base of legal and rhetorical practices, changed little by little into discursive “actions” executed on diversified terrains and thus into techniques for the transformation of a milieu, is imposed the fundamental schema of a discourse organizing the way of thinking as a way of operating, as a rational management of production and as a regulated operation on appropriate fields. That is “method,” the seed of modern science. Ultimately, it systematizes the art that Plato had already placed under the sign of activity.7 But it orders a know-how (savoir-faire) by means of discourse. The frontier thus no longer separates two hierarchized bodies of knowledge, the one speculative, the other linked to particulars, the one concerned with reading the order of the world and the other coming to terms with the details of things within the framework set up for it by the first; rather it sets off practices articulated by discourse from those that are not (yet) articulated by it.”
- 65 Colonize art and crafts by description and perfection
- 66 ff Art, Science (and Engineering(?)) Also: Diderot
- 78 A theory of narration is indiscociable from a theory of practice as its condition as well as its production?
- 78 Narration producing effects not objects; narrated history creates a fictional space. Creates a hit (coup) rather than descibes one
- 86 The occasion is taken advantage of
- 88 [Memory] responds rather than records
- 89 Scientific writing reduces time (s influences); needs regulation, quantification of it. (Abbott?)
- 89 the significance of ta story depends on a crucial detail inserted into the commonplace which makes things work differently
- 92 Erotics of seeing the whole… like god
- 101 Walking as within planned structures (or rather: dependend on them) but not determined by them
- 105/6 Discourses that open spaces make them habitable
- 107 Stories diversity, rumors totalize
- 117 “Space is practices place” e.g. the place “street” becomes spaces by being used by walkers
- 119 Describing places by “map” (“next to x is y”) or tour (“you come through a door and see y to the left, x is…) → Mozart/Murder
- 120 Spacial telling of history no route but a log
- 121 Elimination of practices that produce the map (Latour, Laboratory Life)
- 122 Narrations of what can be done here
- 123 Loss of stories loss of space
- 132 no such thing as unmediated pure voice
- 132 Voice is everywhere, but only through systems of media
- 134 Legitimate systems can not be oral
- 134 Western = Writing
- 134
- a) A blank page as context free cartesian ideal (Latour, drawing things together)
- b) text is constructed
- 135 c) Passive thing to in, powerful text comes out
- 135 Text as capitalist, conquering and strategic
- 135 Revolution as the modernist equivalent of a society rewriting itself on a blank page
- 136 Learning to write = Entering Capitalist society
- 136 Writing, Reading, Bible
- 139 Every Law has a hold on the body
- 139 Bodies as text of law
- 142 Bodies as machine
- 143 Medicine moving from extraction (Aderlass) to addition (Medicine)
- 144 Protestantism, Words, pure origins
- 144 Not discovering a hidden order → create an order, write it on the bodies of the uncivilized (Agre!)
- 179 Artificial production of believes
- 186 Narrated reality in the news
- 191 “There is always something to do” but the lazy and they dying break the illusion
- 191 Everyday life = Work and what is not needs to be isolated
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