...Kathryn Crim A review of de Certeau Michel , The Mystic Fable, Volume Two , edited by Giard Luce , translated by Smith Michael B. ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 ). Cited in the text as mf2 . Copyright © 2016 Qui Parle 2016 The Ghostly Gait of Michel de...

... of the Subject in Mystic Experience 153 “makes beings possible, rather than being itself an entity inside the opening” (PO, 160).      Michel de Certeau, who discovered, edited, and published the manuscripts of Surin, saw in the description of Surin’s experience of nothingness a sort...

... and the Ordinary becomes problematic, since it is indeed a matter of passing (painfully) from one day to the next while pretending as if each day were a whole , to be completed or finished off. Michel de Certeau also cites Wittgenstein when he denounces the attempt by scientists to place themselves above ordinary...

....20, no.1 artistic practice and of political protest today—wherein dedication is not unlinked from pessimism, imagination is not unlinked from reality, love is not unlinked from knowledge.5 Michel de Certeau says that memory “inserts itself into some- thing...

... granted in your 1985 address) but that rupture, betrayal, and transformation are themselves modes of the “life” of tradition. I’m thinking for instance of Michel de Certeau writing about the lost science called mystics ( la mystique ), seeking (through means of historiography, psychoanalysis, erotics...

... to resist ideology (for Michel de Certeau). 5 For Lauren Berlant, everyday life in late capitalism is defined by a “crisis ordinariness” wherein we are able to stay afloat only by remaining attached to things that impair our ability to thrive. 6 Outside these paradigms, ordinary is defined...

... Certeau’s and Henri Lefebvre’s studies of “everyday life” that focus on the practices and epistemologies making up an ever-fracturing whole. 9 These analyses of the everyday or—as this issue names it—the ordinary diagnose problems that cohere in the epistemic habits and anxieties that come...

... Mean What We Say? Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1976 . Cavell Stanley . A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1994 . Certeau Michel de . The Practice of Everyday Life . Translated by Rendall Steven...

... and the mass media underlies much of this activism. Based on Michel de Certeau's book, The Practice of Everyday Life, which explored pop- ular, radical misuses of mass culture, and developed by a number of Net theorists, particularly David Garcia and Geert Lovink, the practice of 'tactical media...

..., and its claims of periodization are irreparably entangled with its claims to sovereignty. 15 The Eckhartian path, however, is hardly exclusive. The relevance of mystical archives to such questions is detectable elsewhere. Other potential trajectories would include Michel de Certeau’s explorations...

... of the space of symbolic reference, phantasmatic elaborations of a fundamental anguish specific to a historical condition. These are symptoms of a disquieting strangeness that circulate through the city, in the sense that de Certeau speaks of it in Possession de Loudun: There are some...

... Optimism , it shows their deep concern with the everyday and the ordinary, concepts that they do not disentangle in this book but that are suggested as subtly different from each other in Cruel Optimism . There Berlant explains that they move away from Michel de Certeau’s and Henri Lefebvre’s theories...