Everyday (Virtual) Life

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ID5100413
AuthorsMark Poster (0000-0003-2433-4550, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume33
Issue4
Pages743-760
Publication date2002-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Literary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/nlh.2002.0043
OpenAlexW2070871012
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited48

The concept of everyday life has been central to the discourse of critical theory at least since the early 1960s when Henri Lefebvre devoted several volumes to elaborating the idea. 1 In this essay I shall review the category of the everyday and test its critical capacities in the current context, when information machines or media have been disseminated widely in places like the home and the street, perhaps undermining the boundary between the quotidian and the extraordinary, the private and the public. I shall argue that the media transform place and space in such a way that what had been regarded as the locus of the everyday can no longer be distinguished as separate from its opposite. This change operates to nullify earlier notions of the everyday but also opens the possibility for a reconfigured concept of daily life which might yet contain critical potentials. 2

Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Everyday life · Linguistics · Public space · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Digital Games and Media · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics

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