...satisifed within a weekly cycle of production/consumption. The Political, like the purloined letter, is hidden in the everyday, exactly where it is most...experience, in the most banal and repetitive gestures of everyday life the commute, the errand, the appointment. It is in the midst of the utterly ordinary,...

...taken up by Alice Kaplan and Kristin Ross who contend that the political, like Poe's purloined letter, is hidden in the everyday, exactly where it is most...experience, in the most banal and repetitive gestures of everyday life - the commute, the errand, the appointment (1987: 3). But then, as Liesl Olson queries,...