Psychogeography quotes
Here are some quotes I found when researching for the rough guide
“Psychogeography is practiced and theorised
almost exclusively in urban contexts. Sukhdev Sandhu points out that “since the
postwar era of inner city neglect and mass suburbanisation, cities have become
hot commodities for academic theorists as much as financiers and real estate
moguls.” Sukhdev Sandhu, ‘Discovering the secrets of the city’ in New Statesman
vol 135 no. 4804, 7th August 2006, p46, as quoted in Walking
Silvermines/ a Rural Psychogoegraphy by Bryonie Reid
“Dadaism,” wrote Guy Dubord in his
foundational 1957 “Report on the Construction of situations”, “wished to be the
refusal of all the values of bourgeois society, whose bankruptcy had just
become so glaringly evident” on the battlefields of the First World War. [Guy
Debord & the Situationist International 2002; introduction p ix]
In the summer of 1957, the International
Movement for an Imagist Bauhaus... published singlularly odd map of Paris
entitled The Naked City, the creation of which was credited to G E
Dubord [ibid p241, map p 242]
Add map p 242
Putting the psychoanalytical couch in the
street, transforming the city into an immense divan, a site for applying and
realising the slightest desire... [ ibid p297]
Revolution is not
“showing” life to people, rather it is making them live [Knabb, ed., Anthology,
Debord, “Pour un jugement revolutionaire de l’art,” 15.
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