16 June 2005

Everyday Life

"None the less our critical analysis of everyday life involves, in retrospect, a particular view of history and the historicity of everyday life can only be compiled by exposing its emergence in the past. Undoubtedly people have always had to be fed, clothed, housed and have had to produce and then re-produce that which has been consumed; but until the nineteenth century, until the advent of competitive captialism and the expansion of the world of trade the quotidian as such did not exist, and the point we are making here is crucial, it is indeed one of the major paradoxes of history. In the heart of poverty and (direct) oppression there was style ..." Henri Lefebvre, Everyday Life in the Modern World (London, England: Continuum, 2002), 37-8.

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