W10 EVERYDAY DECEPTION and RESISTANCE
MICHEL DE CERTEAU
The Pomo Priest Everyday Life and Making Do Strategies and Tactics
Walking in the City
JAMES C. SCOTT
Weapons of the Weak Domination and the Arts of Resistance Seeing like a State • Le Corbusier • 2005 Paris Riots • Parkour
Comparing and Contrasting de Certeau and Scott
Plan for Paris
Brasilia
Chandigra, India
Benjamin Offices
Parkour
THE BIG QUESTION
Consider Grand Theft Auto, Second Life, SimCity, Civilization and Gaming from de Certeau’s perspective.
Is it a form of mindless consumption designed for little more than titillation and profit? Or is a terrain where people make do, exercise tactics and subvert from within a) the real world and b) the virtual world? Picasso said that ‘Art is lie that makes us realise the truth.’ In this sense can such games be considered art?
EXAMPLES of EVERYDAY DECEPTION and RESISTANCE
Making Do in Concentration Camps • Primo Levi • Viktor Frankl Culture Jamming Julia and 1984
Feminist Everyday Resistance
LIVING IN TRUTH
Vaclav Havel