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Merlin Coverley is a writer and bookseller. He is the author of Pocket Essentials on Utopia,London Writing , Psychogeography , Occult London and The Art of Wandering .
Psychogeography. Increasingly this term is used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas from ley lines and the occult, to urban walking and political radicalism. But where does it come from and what exactly does it mean?
Psychogeography is the point where psychology and geography meet in assessing the emotional and behavioural impact of urban space. The relationship between a city and its inhabitants is measured in two ways - firstly through an imaginative and literary response, secondly on foot through walking the city. PG creates a tradition of the writer as walker and has both a literary and a political component.
This book examines the origins of Psychogeography in the Situationist Movement of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political applications as well as the work of early practitioners such as Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem. Elsewhere, psychogeographic ideas continue to find retrospective validation in much earlier traditions from the visionary writing of William Blake and Thomas De Quincey to the rise of the flneur on the streets of 19th century Paris and on through the avant-garde experimentation of the Surrealists. These precursors to Psychogeography are discussed here alongside their modern counterparts, for today these ideas hold greater currency than ever through the popularity of writers and filmmakers such as Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd, Stewart Home and Patrick Keiller.
From Urban Wandering to the Society of the Spectacle, from the Drive to Dtournement, Psychogeography provides us with new ways of apprehending our surroundings, transforming the familiar streets of our everyday experience into something new and unexpected. This guide conducts the reader through this process, offering both an explanation and definition of the terms involved, an analysis of the key figures and their work as well as practical information on Psychogeographical groups and organisations
Bibliography & Further Reading
In consulting this bibliography a couple of books deserve particular attention: for those interested in the intersection between walking and literature and, in particular, the tradition of literary wandering that runs, or rather strolls, from Blake to Benjamin and de Quincey to Debord, Rebecca Solnits Wanderlust: A History of Walking provides the definitive account. This tradition is reiterated and explored through the notion of genius loci in Peter Woodcocks This Enchanted Isle: The Neo-Romantic Vision from William Blake to the New Visionaries . Those interested in situationist and pre-situationist documents should consult Ken Knabbs exhaustive Situationist International Anthology while those looking for a brief overview of the themes discussed in this book might like to read Phil Bakers Secret City: Psychogeography and the End of London in Kerr & Gibson (Eds) London from Punk to Blair.
Ackroyd, Peter Hawksmoor , London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985
Blake , London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995
London: The Biography , London: Chatto & Windus, 2000
The Collection , London: Chatto & Windus, 2001
Andreotti & Costa (Eds) Theory of the Drive and Other Situationist Writings on the City , Barcelona: Museu dart Contemporani, 1996
Antony, Rachael & Henry, Joel The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel , London: Lonely Planet Publications, 2005
Baker, Brian Maps of London Underground: Iain Sinclair and Michael Moorcocks Psychogeography of the City in Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London
Baker, Phil Secret City: Psychogeography and the End of London in Kerr & Gibson (Eds) London from Punk to Blair , London: Reaktion Books, 2003
Ballard, JG The Atrocity Exhibition , London: Jonathan Cape, 1970
Crash , London: Jonathan Cape, 1973
Concrete Island , London: Jonathan Cape, 1974
High-Rise , London: Jonathan Cape, 1975
Baudelaire, Charles The Painter of Modern Life & Other Essays , London: Phaidon Press, 1995
Benjamin, Walter Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism , London: Verso, 1997
The Arcades Project , Cambridge MA: Belknap Press, 1999
Blake, William Complete Writings , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966
Breton, Andr Manifestoes of Surrealism , Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1972
Nadja , New York: Grove Press, 1960
Cline, Louis-Ferdinand Journey to the End of the Night , London: John Calder, 1988
Debord, Guy The Society of the Spectacle , London: Rebel Press, 1992
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe , London: Penguin, 1966
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain , London: Penguin, 1971
A Journal of the Plague Year , London: Penguin, 2003
De Certeau, Michel The Practice of Everyday Life , Berkeley CA: University of California, 1988
De Maistre, Xavier A Journey Around My Room , London: Hesperus, 2004
De Quincey, Thomas Confessions of an English Opium-Eater , London: Penguin, 1997
Ford, Simon The Situationist International: A Users Guide , London: Black Dog, 2005
Gordon, Elizabeth Prehistoric London: Its Mounds and Circles , London: Covenant Publishing, 1914
Home, Stewart The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War , Edinburgh: AK Press, 1991
The House of Nine Squares: Letters on Neoism, Psychogeography and Epistemological Trepidation , London: Invisible Books, 1997
(Ed) Mind Invaders : A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage and Semiotic Terrorism , London: Serpents Tail, 1997
Confusion Incorporated: A Collection of Lies, Hoaxes and Hidden Truths , Hove: Codex, 1999
Huysmans, Joris-Karl
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