...bring to light the models of action characteristic of users whose status as the dominated element in society (a status that does not mean that they are...poaching in countless ways on the property of others. /. Consumer production Since this work grew out of studies of "popular culture" or marginal groups,1...

...witness the growth of ever more diverse proletarian diasporas" (Wolf 1982:383). Dwelling within Big Red Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others. MICHEL DE CERTEAU, THE PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY LIFE (1984) I moved into Big Red in December 1987 in order...

...culture have made. Michel de Certeau writes, in The Practice of Everyday Life, that popular culture "invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others" (xii) — in this case, on the dominant system of thought. In Understanding Popular Culture, John Fiske...

...bring to light the models of action characteristic of users whose status as the dominated element in society (a status that does not mean that they are either passive or docile) is From de Certeau, M., The Practice of Everyday Life, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1984,...

...consumers or readers of popular culture engage in an active form of production was that of 'poaching': 'everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others'.11 This metaphor seems particularly appropriate to both literary and mass media SF, where poaching...

...rather than a passive absorption of mass culture's projects. Everyday life, according to de Certeau, invents itself by "poaching in countless ways on the property of others," deflecting the intended flow of goods and altering their meanings. In this way consumers become active...

...light the models of action characteristic of users whose status as the dominated element in society ... is concealed by the euphemistic term "consumers."...poaching in countless ways on the property of others. — Michel De Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life2 Clint Eastwood doesn't want the tabloids to write...

...(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984). "Everyday life," writes de Certeau in his introduction, "invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others" (de Certeau, xii). 12. I have learned much about the paradoxical relationship between painting and...

...characteristic of users whose status as the dominated element in society (a status that does not mean they are either passive or docile) is concealed by the euphemistic term "consumers'" (de Certeau, 1984: xi-xii). 8 Although it is obviously inspired by the work that culminated in the...

...characteristic of users whose status as the dominated element in society (a status that does not mean that thev are either passive or docile) is concealed by the...poaching in countless ways on the property of others. I Consumer production Since this work grew out of studies of 'popular culture' or marginal groups,'...