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Psychogeography

Index Psychogeography

Psychogeography is an exploration of urban environments that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting". [1]

84 relations: AK Press, Alan Moore, Architecture, Arthur Machen, Asger Jorn, Avant-garde, Awareness, Black Dog Publishing, British Airways, Chaos magic, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Fort, Dada, Daniel Defoe, Dérive, Desire path, Earth mysteries, Ecocriticism, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgelands, Environmental psychology, Euclid, Flâneur, From Hell, Geoff Nicholson, Gil J Wolman, Glasgow, Gothic fiction, Graffiti, Guy Debord, Hypergraphy, Iain Sinclair, Inflight magazine, International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, Italy, Ivan Chtcheglov, J. G. Ballard, Karl Marx, Landscape zodiac, Letterist International, Ley line, Literature, London, London Psychogeographical Association, Neoism, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Nick Papadimitriou, Nottingham Psychogeographical Unit, Occult, Parkour, ..., Pat Barker, Patrick Keiller, Paul Conneally, Pedestrian, Performance art, Peter Ackroyd, Praxis (process), Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies, Psy-Geo-Conflux, Psychohistory, Raoul Vaneigem, Revolutionary, Robert Macfarlane (writer), Romanticism, SFZero, Situationist International, Stewart Home, Surrealism, The Independent, The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture, Thomas De Quincey, Tongue-in-cheek, Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration, Unitary urbanism, United Kingdom, United States, Urban acupuncture, Urban design, Urban exploration, Utne Reader, Walter Benjamin, Wayfinding, Will Self, William Blake. Expand index (34 more) »

AK Press

AK Press is a worker-managed, independent publisher and book distributor that specialises in radical left and anarchist literature.

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Alan Moore

Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones and From Hell.

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.

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Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen (3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century.

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Asger Jorn

Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Awareness

Awareness is the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be cognizant of events.

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Black Dog Publishing

Black Dog Publishing (London UK) is a British publishing company specialising in illustrated non-fiction books on contemporary culture.

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British Airways

British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier and the largest airline in the United Kingdom based on fleet size, or the second largest, behind easyJet, when measured by passengers carried.

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Chaos magic

Chaos magic, also spelled chaos magick, is a contemporary magical practice.

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.

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Charles Fort

Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena.

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Dada

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916); New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris.

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.

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Dérive

The dérive ("drift") is a revolutionary strategy originally put forward in the "Theory of the Dérive" (1956) by Guy Debord, a member at the time of the Letterist International.

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Desire path

A desire path (often referred to as desire line in transportation planning, and also known as a game trail, social trail, herd path, cow path, goat track, pig trail, use trail or bootleg trail) is a path created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot-fall or traffic.

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Earth mysteries

Earth mysteries are a wide range of spiritual, quasi-religious and pseudoscientific ideas focusing on cultural and religious beliefs about the Earth, generally with regard to particular geographical locations of historical significance.

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Ecocriticism

Ecocriticism is the study of literature and the environment from an interdisciplinary point of view, where literature scholars analyze texts that illustrate environmental concerns and examine the various ways literature treats the subject of nature.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Edgelands

Edgelands are the transitional, liminal areas of space to be found on the boundaries of country and town - with the spread of urbanisation, an increasingly important facet of the twenty-first century world.

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Environmental psychology

Environmental psychology is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the interplay between individuals and their surroundings.

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Euclid

Euclid (Εὐκλείδης Eukleidēs; fl. 300 BC), sometimes given the name Euclid of Alexandria to distinguish him from Euclides of Megara, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "founder of geometry" or the "father of geometry".

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Flâneur

Flâneur, from the French noun flâneur, means "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", or "loafer".

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From Hell

From Hell is a graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell, originally published in serial form from 1989 to 1998 and collected in 1999.

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Geoff Nicholson

Geoff J. Nicholson (born 4 March 1953) is a British novelist and non-fiction writer.

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Gil J Wolman

Gil Joseph Wolman (Paris, 1929 – Paris, 1995) was a French artist.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance.

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Graffiti

Graffiti (plural of graffito: "a graffito", but "these graffiti") are writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or painted, typically illicitly, on a wall or other surface, often within public view.

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Guy Debord

Guy Louis Debord (28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International (SI).

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Hypergraphy

Hypergraphy, also called hypergraphics and metagraphics, is a method, central to the Lettrist movement of the 1950s, which encompasses a synthesis of writing and other modalities.

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Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a Welsh writer and filmmaker.

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Inflight magazine

An inflight magazine (or in-flight magazine) is a free magazine distributed via the seats of an airplane by an airline company.

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International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus

The International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus was a small European avant-garde artistic tendency that arose out of the breakup of COBRA, and was initiated by contact between former COBRA member Asger Jorn and Enrico Baj and Sergio Dangelo of the Nuclear Art Movement.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Ivan Chtcheglov

Ivan Vladimirovitch Chtcheglov (Russian: Ива́н Влади́мирович Щегло́в; 16 January 1933 – 21 April 1998) was a French political theorist, activist and poet, born in Paris to a Ukrainian father and a French mother.

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J. G. Ballard

James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Wind from Nowhere (1961) and The Drowned World (1962).

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Karl Marx

Karl MarxThe name "Karl Heinrich Marx", used in various lexicons, is based on an error.

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Landscape zodiac

A landscape zodiac (or terrestrial zodiac) is a map of the stars on a gigantic scale, formed by features in the landscape, such as roads, streams and field boundaries.

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Letterist International

The Letterist International (LI) was a Paris-based collective of radical artists and theorists between 1952 and 1957.

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Ley line

Ley lines are apparent alignments of land forms, places of ancient religious significance or culture, often including man-made structures.

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Literature

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Psychogeographical Association

The London Psychogeographical Association (LPA) is an organisation devoted to psychogeography.

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Neoism

Neoism is a parodistic -ism.

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Nicholas Hawksmoor

Nicholas Hawksmoor (probably 1661 – 25 March 1736) was an English architect.

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Nick Papadimitriou

Nick Papadimitriou (born 1958 in Finchley, Middlesex), nicknamed the "London Perambulator" after the short film about him produced by John Rogers in 2009,, Timeout.com, 2012 is a British writer with a keen interest in the topography of the London region.

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Nottingham Psychogeographical Unit

The Nottingham Psychogeographical Unit was founded in Nottingham, England, in 1994, by Onesto Lusso, Minky Harry, and Dade Fasic.

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Occult

The term occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden".

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Parkour

Parkour is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training.

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Pat Barker

Patricia Mary W. Barker, CBE, FRSL (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist.

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Patrick Keiller

Patrick Keiller (born 1950) is a British film-maker, writer and lecturer.

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Paul Conneally

Paul Terence Conneally (born 1959 in Sheffield, United Kingdom) is a poet, artist and musician based in Loughborough, UK.

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Pedestrian

A pedestrian is a person travelling on foot, whether walking or running.

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Performance art

Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary.

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Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd, (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London.

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Praxis (process)

Praxis (from translit) is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized.

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Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies

Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies (PIPS), sometimes referred to as "People Interested in Participatory Societies," is a small collective of artists in Providence, Rhode Island which promotes artistic and social investigations in psychogeography.

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Psy-Geo-Conflux

Psy-Geo-Conflux (better known as Conflux) is an annual New York City festival dedicated to psychogeography, where visual, performance and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers, researchers and the public gather for four days to explore the physical and psychological landscape of the city.

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Psychohistory

Psychohistory is the study of the psychological motivations of historical events.

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Raoul Vaneigem

Raoul Vaneigem (born 1934) is a Belgian writer known for his 1967 book The Revolution of Everyday Life.

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Revolutionary

A revolutionary is a person who either participates in, or advocates revolution.

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Robert Macfarlane (writer)

Robert Macfarlane (born 15 August 1976) is a British writer.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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SFZero

SFZero or SF0 is a web-based community game invented in San Francisco.

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Situationist International

The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists, prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972.

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Stewart Home

Kevin Llewellyn Callan (born 24 March 1962), better known as Stewart Home, is an English artist, filmmaker, writer, pamphleteer, art historian, and activist.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture

The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture (WNLA) was the name taken by a group of experimental artists and psychogeographers active in Britain (sections existed in both Glasgow and London) during the 1990s.

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Thomas De Quincey

Thomas Penson De Quincey (15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).

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Tongue-in-cheek

The phrase tongue-in-cheek is a figure of speech that describes a statement or other expression that the speaker or author does not mean literally, but intends as humor or otherwise not seriously.

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Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration

Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration was a British magazine founded in 1995.

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Unitary urbanism

Unitary urbanism (UU) was the critique of status quo "urbanism", employed by the Letterist International and then further developed by the Situationist International between 1953 and 1960.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Urban acupuncture

Urban acupuncture is a socio-environmental theory that combines contemporary urban design with traditional Chinese acupuncture, using small-scale interventions to transform the larger urban context.

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Urban design

Urban design is the process of designing and shaping the physical features of cities, towns and villages.

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Urban exploration

Urban exploration (often shortened as UE, urbex and sometimes known as roof-and-tunnel hacking) is the exploration of man-made structures, usually abandoned ruins or not usually seen components of the man-made environment.

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Utne Reader

Utne Reader (a.k.a. Utne) is a quarterly American magazine that collects and reprints articles on politics, culture, and the environment, generally from alternative media sources including journals, newsletters, weeklies, zines, music, and DVDs.

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Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist.

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Wayfinding

Wayfinding encompasses all of the ways in which people (and animals) orient themselves in physical space and navigate from place to place.

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Will Self

William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English novelist, journalist, political commentator and television personality.

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William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography

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