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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY (noun): "A whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities...just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape."

  • Meanderings may seem fairly leisurely and not the least bit political, they propose the radical idea that ways of being in physical space (particularly in the cities) are political acts. The confluence of the détourne and the dérive manages to territorialize the visual. The spectacle is a territory. The city is a spectacle. Both tactics, dérive and détourne, take trespassing as their essential character. They must cross into the territory of others, whether these are the advertisements of Nike or the orderly storefronts of Paris, to produce new meanings.

    Nato Thompson (“The Interventionists”)

    Tagged: quote nato thompson the interventionists Psychogeography dérive détournement space place the spectacle

    Posted on February 25, 2012 with 2 notes

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