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Mythogeography: A guide to walking sideways

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Walking the Bypass – notes on places from the side of the road

Reflections from the lone traveller for whom a highway was never the intended destination Walking the Bypass recounts Ken Wilson’s singular experience of walking alongside the decidedly pedestrian-unfriendly Regina Bypass, all while situating the highway within the ongoing history of settler colonialism in southern Saskatchewan. Through a series of ambitious and unconventional walks, Wilson sets out to

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Society of the Spectacle

In Society of the Spectacle, Thomas Zipp examines Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" and Guy Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle". The two literary works offer different perspectives on society.

Babak Fakhamzadeh
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Walk Notations

Walk Notations brings together traces emerging from Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, a series of artistic walks across Berlin in 2025. Moving between artistic practices, curatorial conversations, and reflections, the book approaches walking as a method for being together in public space. Some contributions revisit specific sites or gestures while others move further afield, driven

Eirini Fountedaki
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Walking Writers Salon – Because the streets belong to everyone – Morag Rose in conversation with Polly Atkin

Morag Rose, author of the widely acclaimed The Feminist Art of Walking will be joined in conversation with author and poet  Polly Atkin for our first Walking Writers Salon on 2026.  For over 20 years Morag Rose has been seeking company, undertaking a wide range of explorative wanders on foot through her home city of Manchester and elsewhere, as she

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2 parts story
This is the gloriously funny and endlessly fascinating account of the author’s recent journey on foot across the north of England in the footsteps of a man who made the same journey 100 years ago with a dog trouvé called Pontiflunk.
Buy it just for his inimitable account of the journey.

1 part handbook
The “handbook of drifting” later in the book has ideas on walking like a stalker, like a swimmer, like a ghost, like an explorer, like a pilgrim… and that’s just the start. Learn about the philosophy of walking, crabs in society, UFOs in Devon, Uri Geller, the political geography of cities, the madness of municipal history and much, much more (as they say). [There’s much more about the much, much more once you get past the mushrooms.]


slew

A short walk or stroll, as in “I’ll take a slew around the harbour before going to bed.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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