so i read chapter three and i actually understood it and enjoyed it! however… the quotes from simmel himself are easier to understand then highmore trying to make sense of it. from what i understand, simmel’s everyday is an accumulation of the microscopic moments that make it up. the book compares it to snapshots of time, which now i also understand why i took pictures of my bathtub haha. i also like how he compared the everyday life to cells
“the life process now revealed itself first in its ties to its smallest elements, the cells, and in its identity with the innumerable and ceasless interactions between these cells. how they adhere to one another or destroy each other, how they assimilate or chemically influence one another- only this permits one to see how the body shapes maintains or changes its form
