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Replace Totalities by Fragments
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Walking Project, Mannheim, October 2020
In the same way, in walking it selects and fragments the space traversed; it skips over links and whole parts that it omits. From this point of view, every walk constantly leaps, or skips like –a child, hopping on one foot. !!,practices the ellipsis of conjunctive loci.
In reality, these two pedestrian figures are related. ~ ~__~in order to make it play the role of a more” (a totality) and take its place (the bicycle or the piece of furniture in a store window stands for a whole street or neighborhood). ~by elision, creates a “less:’ opens gaps in the spatial continuum, and retains only selected parts of it that amount almost to relics . .synecdoche replaces totalities by fragments (a less in the place of a more); asyndeton -disconnects them by eliminating the conjunctive or the consecuhve (nothing in place of something). Synecdoche makes more dense: It amclifies the detail and miniaturizes the whole. Asyndeton cuts out: it undoes continuity and undercuts its plausibility.
— Michel de Certeau, Walking in the City
Replace Totalities by Fragments
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Walking Project, Mannheim, October 2020
In the same way, in walking it selects and fragments the space traversed; it skips over links and whole parts that it omits. From this point of view, every walk constantly leaps, or skips like –a child, hopping on one foot. !!,practices the ellipsis of conjunctive loci.
In reality, these two pedestrian figures are related. ~ ~__~in order to make it play the role of a more” (a totality) and take its place (the bicycle or the piece of furniture in a store window stands for a whole street or neighborhood). ~by elision, creates a “less:’ opens gaps in the spatial continuum, and retains only selected parts of it that amount almost to relics . .synecdoche replaces totalities by fragments (a less in the place of a more); asyndeton -disconnects them by eliminating the conjunctive or the consecuhve (nothing in place of something). Synecdoche makes more dense: It amclifies the detail and miniaturizes the whole. Asyndeton cuts out: it undoes continuity and undercuts its plausibility.
— Michel de Certeau, Walking in the City