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In America, the process of appropriation began even earlier, when the Founding Fathers were among the first to hymn the praises of a writer John Adams called the "Great Master of Nature".
He quotes a literary theorist, Michel de Certeau, who writes that walking "is a process of appropriation of the topographical system…a special acting-out of the place…it implies relations among differentiated positions".
The Patagonian pastureland and the bourgeois architecture of Punta Arenas are the initial and terminal phases of a complex process of appropriation; the beginning and the end of a metabolic chain where biomass is transformed into technomass.
And you can see a similar process of appropriation and modification going on in "Wendy and Lucy," for instance, which seems to pick up an idea from De Sica's "Umberto D" — a lost dog as symbol and symptom of an increasingly heartless society — and follow it from the bustle of Rome into the silence of the Pacific Northwest.
It is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian (just as the speaker appropriates and takes on the language); it is a spatial acting-out of the place (just as the speech act is an acoustic acting-out of language).
This way of thinking about the process of appropriation does rather less to invite obscurantist mysticism.
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Istook first joined Heritage in 2007 as a Visiting Distinguished Fellow, charged with examining the murky process of appropriations.
Whatever the ultimate reality, after the gritty process of appropriations occurs, an article of faith is that less government is better.
In actual fact, it is this collective subject that determines the significance and sense and thus the capacity of project practice to regenerate space, in particular public space, and to favour processes of appropriation of space and consequently urban reorganisation.
I deep into the role of the State, analyzing both public policies governing resources, such as control mechanisms and sanctions, as well as the processes of appropriation of these regulations by local communities.
With that wax cylinder, the oldest known recording of a spiritual titled for its recurring plea, Mr. Gordon set into motion a strange and revealing process of cultural appropriation, popularization and desecration.
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