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We all have eyes, but not everyone sees in the present tense. Cups of coffee, steam floating above hot plates, dust particles in the air of a room that has spent too much time with its windows closed, or too much time with them open. A person riding an old bicycle to work, the wear and tear telling a story.

There is something in the concept of the everyday, mistakenly dismissed as ‘trivial’. Ignored every night at the end of the day, even though its echoes remain stuck to our skin. In 1947, Henri Lefebvre published a nearly 1000-page tome analyzing daily life: Critique de la vie quotidienne, …