Cultures

This book contains a skillful analysis of the process of shaping society's culture. It includes various discussions related to imagination in the city through advertising and imagery; violence in contemporary civilization due to exclusion; credible discourses that take various forms: ideological, political, cultural, scientific, academic, social; the role of the university in distributing knowledge, shaping elites, and the structural problems it encounters; the position of the school within society and its educational and pedagogical tasks; the social engineering of knowledge and the theoretical frameworks organizing society culturally and politically; the status of culture in society and the institutions it is connected to or influenced by; daily practices in organizing the city, housing, and communal life in living and communication. All these are diverse and rich topics that Michel de Certeau preferred to examine as a surgeon would examine a patient on the operating table to diagnose the source of the ailment and outline paths to recovery. Is there a rupture between elite culture and popular culture? In what sense does the past emerge within the present as a return of the repressed or the liberation of spectra? What cultural policy can be prepared to connect society with mechanisms of reading and writing? How do cultural practices contribute to liberating theoretical and practical energies and creating a vision of daily life in its most beautiful manifestations? What obstacles can be avoided or what measures should be taken to make culture a ceremony in planting and a season in harvest? Undoubtedly, these are the legitimate and complex questions that this book addresses with much prudence and creativity.