critique of everyday life

Right. I’m setting a second task to read Lefebvre’s trilogy on Everyday Life. The aim, as with the previous exercise, is to use this space to discipline myself into getting through some texts.

I’d prefer rigorous engagement with others of course but don’t have the will to seek out peeps to come here and partake. So if you’ve stumbled upon this post and are interested in reading along or adding your sense to the coffer, you’re welcome!

It would be very cool too if someone(/s) who has read this or is familiar with Lefebvre’s work happens by! I’m approaching this very much as a layperson sans qualifications, other than my experience of daily life. That’s my disclaimer done.

We’ll start with the first volume simply entitled Critique of Everyday Life, summed up on the back-sleeve as an analysis of the alienating phenomena of daily life under capitalism.

I’m reading the 2008 edition published by Verso – you can squizz  this handy summary of it here.

By the next post (around this time next week) I’d have read the short preface by Michel Trebitsch.