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No fixed identities
There is . . . no identity that is definitively fixed, stable, and unified. The constructive act of identification always fails -- there are always supplements, instabilities, fragmentation, slippages, there are always "'unwelcome effects'. . . distortions and excesses that point to its precarious and contingent constitution." (Laclau and Zac 1994, 32). . . . But there is a further turn: this failure of identification also always fails to hold, this failure is not the permanent undoing of identity, but rather the constitutive condition for identity Rakatansky 1995, 9f
When Michel de Certeau, for example, asserts that 'space is practiced place,' he signals the ability of users to work over and against the codes and prohibitions put in place by hegemonic powers. Which, of course, includes architects. Therefore . . . I would say that users manage architecture much more than architecture manages users. Allen 1995, 50