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| Michel de Certeau |
Reading as poaching is a concept developed by a French scholar, Michel de Certeau, and described in his prominent work
The Practice of Everyday Life originally published in French in 1980. Certeau argues that everyday life works as a process of poaching on the territory of others, using the rules and products that already exist in culture in a way that is influenced, but never wholly determined, by those rules and products.
Reading as an everyday practice also becomes a field for poaching. In this context the reader is perceived as an active and creative participant of the reading process. Those who create some meaning can never be aware that it would be decoded in one possible way.
