Wednesday, July 28, 2010

What Is The Everyday?

Paradox 1:
"The everyday immerses us completely, yet it's hard to grasp as an object of study."

Paradox 2:
"The everyday is excessively familiar, yet difficult to define precisely."

How do everyday practices, beliefs and ideas come to appear to us as 'natural' and unremarkable?

Through processes of socialization and acculturation, through which we are taught that certain behaviours and beliefs are 'normal' or 'true'.

Denaturalize yourself.

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