Evading discipline

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Evading Discipline

This thought has to do with the assumption that a society is disciplined by power, privileges and institutions. De Certeau (1984, p. 14) is of the opinion that there must be ways of resisting to be reduced to discipline and stresses “popular procedures” of manipulation in this context. According to de Certeau users conform to “mechanisms of discipline […] only in order to evade them” (ibid.). It is thus the ´ways of operating` which serve to as practices to “reappropriate space” (ibid.) for the weak, which can be also called a “multitude of tactics acticulated in the details of everyday life”. De Certeau thus emphasizes the simultaneous existence of an order which is imposed by disciplinary means and the clandestine forms of creativity, which are tactically and dispersedly used by individuals or groups within the environment of discipline. The philosopher even goes so far to propose the term “antidiscipline” to describe how discipline that way is evaded (ibid., p. 15).

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Reference

De Certeau, M. (1984). The Practice of Everyday Life. London:University of California Press

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Published by Janna Völpel (s3015041)12:30, 7 May 2012 (CEST)