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back to the dérive

Posted in city, quote, space, walk on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Debord’s The Naked City (1957), as a map of the dérive, is said to bring out those differences that are suppressed by the abstract and homogeneous descriptions of the ‘voyeur’, by fragmenting and re-connecting the Plan de Paris. In the dérive, the city is experienced as a cluster of events, never fully seen and always contingent: ”there are spaces where experiences [...]

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the graveyard

Posted in art, place, walk, tagged on April 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I have been following the online art of Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn for many years, probably since the mid 90s. Auriea does incredibly beautiful work, especially her entropy8 site and associated projects. There is an archive here.
She has just released a new “game”, more like an exploratory space/ painting than an actual game. There is no explicit [...]

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space and place – Ethnophysiography?

Posted in landscape, place, space, walk on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Continuing on from Dérive, and from the The Flâneur, I am in the midst of thinking and dreaming up a topography to house text. it seems like an impossible task, or rather a tautological task to represent representation. anyway… in my wanderings and wonderings i found The ETHNOPHYSIOGRAPHY Project, which at first glance seems like another useless thesis that [...]

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The Flâneur

Posted in city, walk on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Taking a walk is a haeccity . . . Haecceity, fog, glare. A haecceity has neither beginning nor end, origin nor destination; it is always in the middle. It is not made of points, only of lines. It is a rhizome…
Medieval Theories of HaecceityFirst published Thu 31 Jul, 2003First proposed by John Duns Scotus (1266-1308), a [...]

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Dérive — Guy Debord / Sadie Plant

Posted in art, quote, walk, tagged , , , on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

“‘The Arts of the Future will be radical transformations of situations, or they will be nothing” Cineaste, Guy Debord   
Dérive
In philosophy, a Dérive is a French concept meaning an aimless walk, probably through city streets, that follows the whim of the moment. It is sometimes translated as a drift.
French philosopher and Situationist Guy Debord used this idea to get people to revisit the way they looked [...]

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