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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY

August 30, 2010 by Russell Higgs   Comments (3)

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Dérive ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9rive


Flânerie ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur


Psychogeography ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography

 

 

Remixing reality: Alan Moore Gets Psychogeographical

 

 

"We define ourselves by our surroundings and our situations. If you are brought up in a neighborhood that resembles a rat trap, pretty soon you are going to come to the conclusion that you are probably a rat. If on the other hand you have got the tool of psychogeography — or poetry, to give it a less trendy and more accessible name — then you can look at the ordinary world around you with the eye of a poet. Finding events which rhyme with other events, what little coincidences or connections can be drawn to these places and people. You can put them into an arrangement that says something new about them."

 

 

"If you have that kind of insight into the tawdry and debased streets in which most of us spend our lives, then instead of walking through a rat trap you are walking through cataclysmic history, from your personal memories to the local legends. Then the rat trap becomes a fable, a mythological landscape."


"just as living in a rat trap will give you the impression you might be a rat, then l suspect that living in a mythological landscape might after a while give you the subliminal impression that you are at least a mythological figure. A heroic character in your own narrative."


"I think it would be better if we felt like that rather than victims of our environment. That would empower us, and put some genuine energy back into the streets in which we live."

 


http://m.wired.com/underwire/2010/08/alan-moore/all/1


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore

 

 

plus... "WHY PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY" by London Psychogeographical Association

 

http://www.infopool.org.uk/Why.htm

 


SURVEILLANCE CAMERA THEATRE


Playing to the cameras.


Entertaining the watchers.


Real reality TV.


Re-engaging with our imaginations and going outside to play in the streets again.


Non-violent re-appropriation of our public spaces etc.



The Surveillance Camera Players have some suggestions:

http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html


Russell Higgs 518 days ago

 

STRAY SOD

 

A Stray Sod is an enchanted clump of grass.

 

When one steps on the clump it triggers a magic spell and under the influence of this spell all the familiar landmarks have disappeared.

 

The road you walked upon is suddenly gone and no matter how hard you look, it can not be seen again.

 

In other cases, a traveler can suddenly notice that they are walking in a completely different direction, and no matter which way they turn, they cannot find the right direction again.

 

 

The spell can be lifted by wearing the clothes inside out.

 

 

(...via Encyclopedia Mythica)

 

Russell Higgs 518 days ago