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Ben Highmore’s
HENRI LEFEBVRE’S
DIALECTICS OF EVERYDAY
LIFE
Çiğdem Demir
February 26, 2015
ID 501 Advanced Project Development in Industrial Design

#keywords
capitalism, modernization, commodity, american
life, transformation, alienation, dis-
alienation, end of history, total person,
Hegelian Marxist, ideal, la fête, carnival

#dialectic
The way of reasoning by investigating
and applying conflicting ideas.

#everyday life in France
An everyday life in which
capitalism has been penetrated
in postwar France.

#reconstruction of France
Transformation
modernization=consumer culture commodification
-American temptation-

#everyday life for Lefebvre
Marxist L: ‘explotitative, oppresive, relentlessly
controlled; bureaucratic society of controlled
consumption’
Romantic L: ‘everyday life the energies of which
could be used to transformation;lived experience’

#moments
transformation,modernizing towns of France
Visual and theoritical moments providing available
critique of the everyday
Moments: a promise of the possibility of different
daily life together with collapsing of the continuum
of the present.

#a moment
‘Watching people attend a village church becomes a
scene that reveals the extent to which religion
penetrates the everyday, while it also reminds
Lefebre of his adoloscent struggles to escape
Christianity.’

#total man
Total man/person=humankind no longer alienated
End of history=the telos of history having been
reached
Hegelian Marxist ideas
la fête (the festival), a moment ‘other to the
capitalist everyday and ebacting a critique of the
seperation of the aesthetic from the social, art
from life
• foundations
End of history
Emergence of the
total person

#la fête
Combination of the positions (by Lefebvre) of la
fête resulting in two moves:
-Privilege creativity for the transformation
of daily life
-Decline of centrally organized society
By placing la fête at the ‘end of history’, Lefebvre
desires a historical telos of creativity and the
radical democratic ‘right to difference’.
• foundations

#total person
The total person is the potentiality of humankind
for a sociability based in a radical understanding
of community.
Total person will transform everyday life.
• foundations

#Hegel’s concepts
Society is in a state of self alienation
#Marx’s concepts
Humanbeigns are alienated from themselves
and each other because their social conditions have
postponed the expression of their human potential
for creative work
#Lefebre’s transformation of edl
Transformation will be brought by the de-alienation
of human beings and the creation of the total
person, and so the end of history. #life lived ideal
• foundations

#Lefebvre’s project
Transformation of everyday life is the central
orientation of Lefebvre’s project
• foundations

#Interest in festival
The promotion of festival=dissolotion
of the state
Festival is part of popular everyday
life and radical configuring of daily
life that is anything but ‘everyday’.
• foundations

#Interest in festival/carnival
Festival is able to overturn cultural values for
revolutionary ends. Festival is the overturning to
generate the possibility of re-ordering difference.
Carnival is a moment when everday life is
reconfigured.
• foundations

#repetition
Everyday life is repetitive with extraordinary
events (birthdays), those are also the part of
cycle.
• Repeat itself constantly

#urban life
The massively accelerated modernization can be seen
in a particularly dynamic way in the double
articulation of colonial processes.
• Hypermodernization

#Urbanization
Urbanization
Labour
Time, Space
Less Free Time
More Labour
Depthlessness

#The society of dos&don’ts
A socity based on probitions and commands
There isa power that dominates teh urban everyday
leaving little room for resistance.

#Semiotics of postmodernism
Symbol
Meaning experienced through narrative themes of
culture
(Old world)
Signal
Instrumentally reduced
On/off communication, traffic lights
(Postmodern world)

#Semiotics of postmodernism
Symbol
Meaning experienced through narrative themes of
culture
(Old world)
Signal
Instrumentally reduced
On/off communication, traffic lights
(Postmodern world)
• May 1968, urbanism and the Situations

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