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.
