Rethinking everyday life: And then nothing turns itself inside out

The contingencies and permeabilities and rhythms of everyday life make it notoriously difficult to pin down in any determinant way. Hence, everyday life places unique demands upon critical practice and conceptualization. In following one potential angle of approach, this essay looks at the influence...

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Published in:Cultural Studies (London, England) England), 2004-03, Vol.18 (2-3), p.139-159
Main Authors: Seigworth, Gregory, Gardiner, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Articulation
Barthes, Roland
Biopolitical
Biopolitics
Bourdieu, Pierre
Conceptualization
Critical theory
Cultural studies
Culture
Cultures and civilizations
Dewey, John
Dialectics
Digital technology
everyday
Everyday Life
Expectation
Foucault, Michel
Giard, Luce
History
Information technology
Koselleck, Reinhart
Lefebvre
Lefebvre, Henri
Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz
Leibniz, Gottfried
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Lifestyles. Everyday life
Mauss, Marcel
Methodology (Philosophical)
Modernity
Morris, Meaghan
Otherness
Philosophy
Postmodernism
rhythmanalysis
Rythmanalysis
Social control
Social theory
Sociological Theory
Sociology
Space
Surveillance
Time
Tomkins, Silvan
Utopias
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Summary:The contingencies and permeabilities and rhythms of everyday life make it notoriously difficult to pin down in any determinant way. Hence, everyday life places unique demands upon critical practice and conceptualization. In following one potential angle of approach, this essay looks at the influence that philosopher Gottfried Leibniz played in the thinking of sociologist and everyday life philosopher Henri Lefebvre. Lefebvre's theory of moments and his conceptions of 'the everyday' draw upon often overlooked (and controversial) elements from Leibniz's monadology and other later writings. This essay concludes by considering how substituting 'everyday life' for the 'culture' of cultural studies requires, among other things, a closer consideration of the immanently biopolitical implications that Lefebvre teased out of Leibniz. As the introductory essay for this special issue of Cultural Studies, we also set up, in the final section here, an overview of our contributors' own unique angles of approach to the study of everyday life at the dawn of the 21st century.
ISSN:0950-2386
1466-4348
DOI:10.1080/0950238042000201455