what are the value of blogs? i think they give an outlet to the people who dont know how to express thier emotions otherwise and cannot connect to the people around them… yet feel somewhat better by expressing themselves on a website that anyone can view
my friends and i the other day were talking about what a routine our days have become while we are at school. for some its get up, go to class, nap, and hang around all day. for me its class, gym, and work. or that we have a routine when we get up in the morning and get ready, like if you have to brush your teeth before you get dressed or eat breakfast before you do your hair. whatever it was, everyone had something different that they did that was thier everyday and that if they didnt do it, would mess up thier routine. they were kind of doing an observation of themselves as we spoke and it was cool to see that people could look at thier activities and realize that what you do everyday becomes strange when examined.
For my final project I will be doing the mail order catalogue option. I am going to use the PINK section of the Victorias Secret Catalogue and parody the way the company portrays the type of personality they want a “PINK Girl” to have.
For my Feeling Weathermap, I took screen captures of WeFeelFine, the daily New York Times, the daily weather report for the nation, and also select horoscopes that contained extreme emotion predictions and also quotes from articles in the Times. Only US stories were used. Information was collected twice a day, morning and night, and kept in Word. The time at which information was gatherered was recorded. By using screen shots for WeFeelFine, I was able to see the amount of happy or sad emotion dots were present at that time.
I found it interesting to see that on some days there were no returns for happy or sad and on others there were far more than other days. Concerning WeFeelFine, lots of times happy feelings only appeared later on in the day, but sad feelings appeared all through the day. Does this mean that some people dont wake up happy and that it takes something that occurs during the day to make them feel good? But why people can wake up sad for no good reason?
Alot of happy feelings were accompanied with a qualification for why they were happy. Such as “I feel so happy to work here because I feel like i fit in,” or “I made the decision and now Im pressure free.” However, when people felt sad, the only thing they wrote was “I feel sad,” or “I feel depressed.” they did not give a reason, as though this was thier normal everyday disposition and that happiness was not the norm.
Kaitlyn used headlines, pictures that accompanied the headlines, daily weather, Facebook statuses, and Facebook posts. You can defintatley tell what the important news stories were throughout the weeks because they continued to show up again and again throughout the week.
Kaitlyn’s approach allowed the viewer to infer the feelings of the day because even thought not all the pictures were accompanied by a headline, you could tell what the emotions were in the picture. Some of the important concepts that repeated throughout Kaitlyns project were the fires in California, The redsocks winning the World Series, and Joe Torre getting fired.
A similarity between our projects concerns the change of feelings throughout the day. With mine, happy feelings only appeared later in the day in WeFeelFine. In Kaitlyns Facebook captures, people would not update thier status until later int he day and the text would involve an event that occured during that day. If there was a post that was new in the morning, it was usually friends saying they missed each other rather than talking about something that happened.
In order to make our projects more accurate, I could have concentrated more on the headlines available throughout the day instead of just WeFeelFine because only a limited number of pepople use that application and the whole world is concerned with the news.
I could have also paid more attention to the region which the feelings were coming from to see if it coincided more with the weather or the headlines happening. If the class wanted to be able to see patterns in our data we could create a flash that included a rollover not only of a date but of the state or region in which the feelings occured. A graph of the number of happy or sad feelings per day would also help so that we could compare which news stories and weather triggered more emotions.
CHAPTER 8: for de certeau the everyday is hidden and evasive. to attempt to attend to it requires a leap of faith. nothing could be more damaging to the study of the everyday that to greet it with a prescriptive “political” assesment. to reimagine it for the everyday: what would a politics be like that emerged from the everyday instead of one that was applied to the everyday. De certeau attempts a production of poetics of the everyday. poetics need to be understood bth as an inquiry into the forms that the everyday takes and as an iventive acitivty within language and life. hi writing insists on employing a series of binary terms: consumption vs production, reading vs writing, tactics vs strategies, space vs place, spoken vs written. the use of binary terms challenge the structure of binary thought.
Pierre Mayol’s intention is to study the way that the organization of everyday life is articulated on at least two registers. mayol divides these registers into behaviors and benefits. the correlation of everyday life and war which the terms strategy and tactics generate is useful for making vivid the formal differences of actions.
consciousness cannot completely eradicate the unconscious. there is never the possibility of direct access to the unconscious in conscious. it never declares itself but always inscribes itself in obscure and roundabout ways.
De Certeaus general poetics of everyday life evidences a tension implicit in the desire to produce a science of singularity. on one hand the generality of a science and on the other particularity of the actual. a general poetics of the everyday life is a science of the singular in that it allows for the differentiation of the relationships that link everday pursuits to particular circumstances.
Chapter 7: for lefebvre, “moments” are those instances of intense experience in everyday life that provide an immanent critique of the everyday. they are moments of vivid sensations of disgust, shock, delight etc. the concept of total man (humankind no longer alienated) would result in the end of history. the study of everyday life is a study of alienation under conditions of modernity but that transformation of everyday life will be brought about by the dealienation of human beings and the creation of the total person, thus the end of history.
festival hold a position in the everyday: it is part of the popular everyday life but it is also a radical reconfiguring of daily life that is anything but everyday. it is the overturning of established differences: differences of gender and class that have fixed hierarchical determinations.
women are in an ambiguous position as both consumers of commodities and symbols for commodities.
la vie quotidienne connotes continual recurrence. it is repetition that is crucial to the meaning of the tem everyday life the daily chores are well as those routinized pleasures that are meant to compensate for the dudgery.
