ABSTRACT

'Systematicity is found in the opus operatum because it is in the modus operandi. It is found in ail the properties - and property - with which individuals and groups surround themselves, houses, furniture, paintings, books, cars, spirits, perfume, clothes, and in the practices in which they manifest their distinction, sports, games, entertainments ... In the ordinary situation of bourgeois life, banalities about art, literature or cinema are inseparable from the steady tone, the slow, casual diction, the distant or self-assured smile, the measured gesture, the well-tailored suit and the bourgeois salon of the person who pronounces them.'