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De Certeau—A Found Poem
forest of narrativities
an anonymous code
information innervates
and saturates the body politic
from morning to night
narrations
constantly haunt
streets and buildings
(articulate our existences
by
teaching us
what they
must be…
make our legends)
captured
as soon as
he awakens
the listener walks
all day long
through the forest
of narrativities
( journalism, advertising, television)
that still find time
as he is getting ready for bed
to slip a few final messages
under the portal of sleep
(de Certeau, 1984, p. 186)
De Certeau describes a world in which we are constantly bombarded with information, images, and stories, most of which serve to dominate our thinking and actions. At their best, as posited in this text, theatre and other performing arts forms can serve as acts of resistance to mediatized forms of performance, and can offer audiences a space and place where more authentic, truthful, and meaningful human encounters potentially can occur.