Situationist International
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Reclaiming the Margins: Walking, Art, and Resistance, with Lori Waxman
Earlier this year, we had the pleasure of hosting Lori Waxman, art critic and historian, at our online event Keep Walking Intently, inspired by Lori's book with the same name. The video registration is available online, and below you can find a writeup of Babak Fakhamzadeh's interview with Lori.
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A history of walking art
Next Tuesday, February 11, we have Lori Waxman as a guest in our next Walking Writers Salon, where Lori and I discuss her book Keep Walking Intently, on the ambulatory art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus. To whet your appetite, and to prepare you for our discussion, here's an overview of Lori's excellent book.
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The Persistence of Guy DeBord, That Bastard – Shepherd Express
As machines increasingly calculate the “correct” way forward by statistical consensus, our psychic salvation may finally lie in learning how to go the wrong way—deliberately. Source: The Persistence of Guy DeBord, That Bastard – Shepherd Express
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The art of ‘getting lost’: how re-discovering your city can be an antidote to capitalism
‘Situationists’ believe the physical spaces around us, and how we interact with them, has a significant impact on how we feel. Source: The art of ‘getting lost’: how re-discovering your city can be an antidote to capitalism
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Articles elsewhere
Drifting Through Empire: From the Situationists to Big Tech and the Dérive
Next week, Saturday November 29, I’m hosting a Dérive app workshop in Yogyakarta, together with Kunci and Jalan Gembira. You can still sign up, check the announcement for the signup link. In preparation, we kicked off with an online presentation, to ease participants into concepts surrounding the dérive, specifically its origin with the Situationists, and …
• 67. Sam Cooper, “The Peculiar Romanticism of the English Situationists”
I don’t remember where I ran across a reference to Sam Cooper’s essay, “The Peculiar Romanticism of the English Situationists”—probably in Phil Smith’s book Walking’s New Movement. What I had hoped this essay would discuss would be the connection between contemporary British psychogeographers and Romanticism—a connection I keep seeing, and one which would make me […]
Fifty Walks: 38
Anti-dérive, Copenhagen, DenmarkThe dérive, or drift, is a kind of urban walk in which the walker aimlessly wanders the city, following no map, visiting off-limits spaces, getting to know the hidden, unseen, and neglected parts of the city.* With only one day in Copenhagen my walk was the exact opposite. I followed a tourist map's self-guided walking tour though the most scenic and well-known parts of the old centre of town. The dotted line on the map took me past canal [...]
