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Abstract

In bis studies in cite practice of everyday life, Michel de Certeau (1994)considers the concepts of tactics, bricolage and accounts of space. In ananalogy with war language, he opposes tactics to strategy, arguing thatthe latter is programmed while the former dependa on available elements. He then associates that kind of procedure to lhe
process of bricolage,which, on its turn, also makes use of remains in creating its culturalproducts.In that sense. bricolage and tactics would be the weak man'sart, outside
the centers of power. Relating those concepts to Slavoj Zizek's idea of perceiving, in lhe "new modes of social conscience thatwill emerge from slum sets" (2004), possible political and economicsolutions in today's world, this paper describes some cultural initiativesdetected in the streets of big American cities, taken as a form of publicintervention
disrupting the hegemony of global capital. Therefore, ti aimsat reflecting on the power of informality in the organization of the Americas today.