Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. 'I feel good here': the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice.
Michel de CerteauEveryday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
Michel de CerteauThe only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
Michel de CerteauAs a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
Michel de Certeau