1. Figuring the everyday -- 2. Arguments -- 3. Simmel: Fragments of everyday life -- 4. Surrealism: The marvellous in the everyday -- 5. Benjamin's trash aesthetics -- 6. Mass-Observation: A science of everyday life -- 7. Henri Lefebvre's dialectics of everyday life -- 8. Michel de Certeau's poetics of everyday life -- 9. Postscript: Everyday life and the future of cultural studies