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" Marginality is today no longer limited to minority groups, but is rather massive and pervasive; this cultural activity of the non-producers of culture, an activity that is unsigned, unreadable, and unsymbolized, remains the only one possible for all those... "
Contours of Culture: Space and Social Difference in Singapore - Page 8
by Robbie B.H. Goh - 2005 - 270 pages
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The Practice of Everyday Life, Volume 1

Michel de Certeau - History - 1984 - 260 pages
...of the creativity that nourishes at the very point where practice ceases to have its own language. Marginality is today no longer limited to minority groups, but is rather massive and pervasive; this cultural activity of the non-producers of culture, an activity that is unsigned, unreadable, and...
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Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity

Rob Shields - Geographical perception - 1991 - 356 pages
...periphery amongst his seven features of postmodernity (l984), and De Certcau go even further to argue: Marginality is today no longer limited to minority groups, but is rather massive and pervasive; this cultural activity of the nonproducers of culture, an activity that is unsigned, unreadable, and...
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Thinking in Jewish

Jonathan Boyarin - Religion - 1996 - 232 pages
..."practice" as the subcultures of minorities, and of marginality as limited to such subcultura! identities: "Marginality is today no longer limited to minority groups, but is rather massive and pervasive. . . . Marginality is becoming universal. A marginal group has now become a silent majority" (igS^xvii)....
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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader

John Storey - Political Science - 1998 - 674 pages
...of the creativity that flourishes at the very point where practice ceases to have its own language. Marginality is today no longer limited to minority groups, but is rather massive and pervasive; this cultural activity of the non-producers of culture, an activity that is unsigned, unreadable, and...
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The Margins of the Text

David C. Greetham - History - 1997 - 392 pages
...easily becomes "art." Michel de Certeau argues that today "marginality is becoming universal" and is "no longer limited to minority groups, but is rather massive and pervasive, this cultural activity of the non-producers of culture, an activity that is unsigned, unreadable and...
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Passing and Pedagogy: The Dynamics of Responsibility

Pamela L. Caughie - Art - 1999 - 310 pages
...his or her rightful place. "Marginality," writes Michel de Certeau in The Practice of Everyday Life, "is today no longer limited to minority groups, but is rather massive and pervasive" (xvii). Certeau's statement characterizes the social and psychic condition of postmodernity, a shared...
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Tactical Readings: Feminist Postmodernism in the Novels of Kathy Acker and ...

Nicola Pitchford - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 236 pages
...proposes that because of the hugely increased emphasis on the "silent" and anonymous act of consumption, "[m]arginality is today no longer limited to minority groups, but is rather massive and pervasive. . . . Marginality is becoming universal." However, he also adds, "That does not mean the [marginal]...
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The Everyday Life Reader

Ben Highmore - History - 2002 - 396 pages
...of the creativity that flourishes at the very point where practice ceases to have its own language. Marginality is today no longer limited to minority groups, but is rather massive and pervasive; this cultural activity of the non-producers of culture, an activity that is unsigned, unreadable, and...
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Designing America's Waste Landscapes

Mira Engler - Architecture - 2004 - 364 pages
...their inclusion in one another. Cultural critic Michel de Certeau goes even further, claiming that "Marginality is today no longer limited to minority groups, but is rather massive and pervasive." Though consisting of varying groups, the general consumer of the new socioeconomic structures "has...
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