practice, n.Definitions

Practice is always in search of its theory.

Practice is concerned with how practice reproduces the system and how the system may be changed by practice.

Practice is a process of transforming labor into products. Society consists of economic, political and ideological practices.

A Practice is a set of relays from one theoretical point to another. Theory is, by the same token, defined as 'a relay' from one practice to another. No theory can develop without eventually encountering a wall, and practice is necessary for piercing this wall.

Practice is constructed on the dispositions which are inherent in habitus and unfolds as 'strategic improvisations goals and interests pursued as strategies against a background of doxa that ultimately limits them.

Practice is an intensifier of thought just as thought is a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.

A Practice is a pervasive embodied response, discrimination, motor skill, which together add up to an interpretation of what it is to be a person, an object, or an institution.

Practice is, by no means, to suggest we 'apply' ideas but rather to put them to the test and modify them. The key to the personal poetic attitude of a philosopher is not to be sought in his ideas but rather in his philosophy-as-life, in his philosophical, life, his ethos.