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CULTURES OF EVERYDAY LIFE

Overview
Medium of representation Depiction of my everyday life Conclusion

Why Videography
Video Photograph : motion : stillness
Record the flow of moments or events
Lose its context
Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy. - Sontag, S. (1997, p.23)

Why Videography
Video Photograph

My Everyday Life

Strategy and Tactics (de Certeau, 2002)

Strategy
E.g. traffic rules, dividers Top-down exercise of power Used by organisational power structure

Tactic
E.g. shrewd driving tricks Bottom-up resistance Used by those who are subjugated

The Nature of Tactics

Opportunism
[A tactic] is always on the watch for opportunities. - De Certeau (2002, p.70)

Crack in the surveillance

Temporality
Whatever it wins, it does not keep. - De Certeau (2002, p.70)

Return to conformity

My Everyday Life
Through a process of poaching on the territory of others

My Everyday Life
Through a process of poaching on the territory of others

Conclusion
Subversive agency of the ordinary people

Reference
De Certeau, M. (2002) General Introduction to The Practice of Everyday Life in Highmore, B. (ed.) The Everyday Life Reader, pp. 63-75. London: Routledge. Sontag, S. (2008) On Photography. London: Penguin.