Michel de Certeau

“To a lesser degree, the space of a tactic is the space of the other.”

“A tactic insinuates itself into the other’s place, fragmentarily, without taking it over in its entirety, without being able to keep it at a distance.”

“The tactical nature of the ‘ways of operating’ is its most general characteristic.”

“What the map cuts up, the story cuts across.”

“A tactic is an art of the weak.”

“The practice of everyday life creates its own syntax.”

“Reading is poaching on the property of others.”

“History is the art of memory.”

“Marginality is today no longer limited to small groups…It is becoming a general phenomenon.”

“A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.”

“The believer is not one who has the faith, but one who is had by it.”

“A society is composed of certain foregrounded practices by which it is recognized, and of a multitude of other practices that remain silent, submerged, and as if invalidated.”