Banal = commonplace

We move through as if invisible medium

Preparatory exercise

Speeches seeking to establish moral character

Vituperation

Commonplace appeals to our passions

Directed at the crowd

They are moved by passion not intellectual appeals

Political logic at work

Tell people what they think they already know

Nothing natural about banality

Construct
Result of specialized labor
Designed to produce specialized effectnaturalize experience
Beneath dignity of reflection

Synecdoche

Banality = state of emotional and cognitive indifference

Qualitative undifferentiation
Does not have an object
Experience without qualities

Boredom can be relaxed or anxious

Complexity can be traumatic

banality is systematic expression of a problem
lack of shared value and meaning at the level of social relations

society may unconsciously be in crisis

not standardness of experience

but emptying out of experience
crisis of meaning

technologies of everyday life

conceal extraordinarily complex system of value judgments
small things connected to large things
microscopic adjustments from moment to moment

and step to step

decerteau
critique of everyday life

because meaning of social and linguistic social systems are subject to normalization and
standardization

cannot have banal without obscene

language of ordinary people as expressed in folktales

populated by an obscenity

difference between place and space

place is physical
space is phenomenological

place + experience = space

ecumenical = spaces
secular and religious are a false binary in study of religion
space defined by how one moves through it