{"id":154,"date":"2017-10-17T03:29:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T03:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2017-10-17T04:24:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T04:24:25","slug":"the-metropolis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/the-metropolis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Metropolis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michel de Certeau, in The Practice of Everyday Life<\/em><\/a>, makes crucial arguments that can be used to combine these concepts of practice, performativity, and intersubjectivity as they pertain to identity.\u00a0 He connects it all in his bird\u2019s-eye view of the metropolis and its specs of frenzied citizens as they walk through the daily routines of their everyday lives.\u00a0 \u201cThe ordinary practitioners of the city live \u2018down below\u2019, below the thresholds at which visibility begins.\u00a0 They walk\u2026 [and their] bodies follow the thicks and thins of an urban \u2018text\u2019 they write without being able to read it\u201d (de Certeau 93).\u00a0 They are unaware of the story they write, of the system that they create and operate, of the game that they both develop and play.\u00a0 The walkers write their urban text together, pressing their feet into the perpetually drying concrete and asphalt so that their steps are imprinted behind them.\u00a0 And those footprints, stepped in and stepped in and stepped in, become sized in such a way that they give off the illusion of only permitting certain shoes to fit.<\/p>\n

The routines of the city\u2019s citizens reveal themselves to be discursive \u2013 and rhetorically so.\u00a0 The walkers make arguments with their very existence and sentience.\u00a0 \u201cTheir swarming mass is an innumerable collection of singularities.\u00a0 Their intertwined paths give their shape to spaces.\u00a0 They weave places together.\u00a0 In that respect, pedestrian movements form one of these \u2018real systems whose existence in fact makes up the city.\u2019\u00a0 They are not localized; it is rather they that spatialize\u201d (de Certeau 97). \u00a0The city, de Certeau theorizes, becomes its own anonymous, all-enveloping subject \u2013 a totalizing entity that contains all of the people, groups, texts, buildings, ideas, discourse, etc. that constitute it and deems itself the subject of all of the real subjects within it (94).\u00a0 And, through such a process, the metropolis \u2013 whether it be real or virtual, a city of walkers or a community of gamers \u2013 establishes its seemingly static roles of identity by observing the norms that its subjects enact.<\/p>\n

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Michel de Certeau, in The Practice of Everyday Life, makes crucial arguments that can be used to combine these concepts of practice, performativity, and intersubjectivity as they pertain to identity.\u00a0 He connects it all in his bird\u2019s-eye view of the metropolis and its specs of frenzied citizens as they walk through the daily routines of … <\/p>\n

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