Everyday walking replaces totalizing spatial order with fragmentary, allusive pedestrian rhetoric.

Evidence

Answering Foucault, de Certeau sees a daily substitution ‘for the technological system of a coherent and totalizing space’ by a ‘pedestrian rhetoric’ of trajectories that have ‘a mythical structure’ understood as ‘a story jerry-built out of elements taken from common sayings, an allusive and fragmentary story whose gaps mesh with the social practices it symbolizes.’ — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1336

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines de Certeau’s central concept of ‘pedestrian rhetoric’ as a counter-order to technological space.
• XREF: connects to: Using outmoded thought for present problems makes one a walking anachronism; Everyday perception reveals things as permanent wholes indifferent to their changing profiles; A reasoned whole picture transforms scattered facts into landscape meaning — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 123

Broader Connections

• Everyday perception reveals things as permanent wholes indifferent to their changing profiles #complicates (0.75)
• Using outmoded thought for present problems makes one a walking anachronism #complicates (0.70)