Bend But Don't Break

Exist Only As Records

Exist To Reduce Uncertainty

Fall Through The Cracks

Go Without Saying

Harden Reality

Keep Their Own Order

Only Stay Neat If Maintained

Organize Conflict

Organize Life

Reward Approximation

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is a structure which has a somewhat autonomous, although 'fuzzy' existence, in terms of which strategies must be developed.

for Bourdieu, rules are structures which do have a somewhat autonomous, although 'fuzzy' existence, in terms of which strategies must be developed.

is either those rules I can become aware of (such as grammatical rules), rules I can't (such as unconscious prohibitions) or rules I am aware of but out of propriety have to act as though i'm not aware of them (such as dirty innuendos).

The rules that I follow are marked by a deep split: there are rules (and meanings) that I follow blindly, out of custom, but of which, upon reflection, I can become at least partially aware (such as common grammatical rules), and there are rules that I follow, meanings that haunt me, unbeknownst to me (such as unconscious prohibitions). Then there are rules and meanings I am aware of, but have to act on the outside as if I am not aware of them dirty or obscene innuendos which one passes over in silence in order to maintain the proper appearances. (zizek : 'how to read lacan : 9)

is guided by strategic action. It is followed not because it is the right thing to do, but rather, a rule is followed only 'when there is more to be gained by obeying it than disobeying it'.

Even if habitus operates on a subconscious level (Bourdieu 1977: 22), it nevertheless emphasises strategic action: people do not follow a rule because it is the right thing to do, but only 'when there is more to be gained by obeying it than disobeying it'.

is not an external description of a procedure that has to be internalized in order to produce a particular behaviour. They have no meaning outside of their practical application any more than do the rails that compel a locomotive down the tracks.

l. In the world as seen by economist, rules operate in the same way as 'rails compelling a locomotive', to use a metaphor cherished by Wittgenstein (BGM,6 I 116). For him, rules are not an external description of a procedure that has to be internalized in order to produce a particular behaviour. They have no meaning outside of their practical application.

is not based on logic and scientific methods, rather they are derived from experience and reason.

rules are not based on logic and scientific methods but are derived from experience and reason' (Gruneberg, 1950, p. 162)

is not within the human mind, but rather, it exists outside it in social forms themselves, in the relations of production, in the class struggle.

It is not a matter of combination. Only creativity is possible in putting into play a system of rules... it is not a mixture of order and freedom. Where perhaps I don't completely agree with Mr Chomsky is when he places the principle of these regularities, in a way, in which the inte rior of the mind or of human nature. If it is a ma tter of whe ther these rules are effe ctively put to work by the human mind, all right... all right, too, if it is a question of whether the historian arid the linguist can think it in th eir turn... it is all right also to say that these rules should allow us to realise what is said or thought by these individuals. But to say that these regularities are connected, as conditions of existence, to the human mind or its nature, is difficult for me to accept... it seems to me that one must, before reaching that point . . . replace it in the field of othe1 human practices, such as economics, technology, politics, sociology, which can serve th em as conditions of formation, of models, of place, of apparitio n, etc. I would like to know wh e ther one cannot discover the system o f regularity, of con.strain t, whicl1 makes scie nce possible, somewhere else, even outside the human mind, in so cial forms, in the relations of production, in the class struggle, e tc.

is nothing but the way statements are actually related.

What is a rule for Foucault' 'Nothing but the way statements are actually related' (Rabinow Beyond Stucturalism and Hermeneutics 55).

 any good teacher must know, just as any good pupil must know the exceptions.

A good teacher must know the rules... a good pupil, the exceptions.

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