Housing under Totality.

The article presents information on the issue of housing under totality. This text interprets the autobiographies of eight sociologists (including its author) who decided to try out the effects of new biographical approaches for themselves. The project of the biographical research SAMI SEBE (Ourselves Selves) emerged spontaneously about two years ago when a group from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Charles University in Prague felt the need to tryout for themselves the biographical "long-life" approaches, also from the practical and research point of view. This article is the adapted version of the working text presented at the first international workshop organized by our group.(2) The selection of the concrete aspects of life--housing (in flats)--as the theme of the work was conditioned both by the personal (in fact, biographical) bias of the author and the fact that the subject was explicitly relevant for the others. This fact may be documented by the frequency and location of the "housing story" in the autobiographies (sometimes the flat was the subject, at other times "only" the context of the story) and by the urgency of the problems surrounding the living standards for many of the narrators. transformation. The confusion of a number of spheres and relations (for examples flat politics conceived as an instrument of social politics serving chiefly as the allocation of production), the obscured definition of legality and legitimacy, the ambiguity of many other institutions under totality and post-totality from the aspects of everyday life needs such as having somewhere to live (and discussions about this) are here documented and illustrated.