Psychogeography /
Merlin Coverley.
- Revised and updated new edition.
- 223 pages
Originally published: Harpenden: Pocket Essentials, 2006. Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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, before moving onto the current interest in the topic. This book examines the origins of psychogeography in the Paris of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political application in the work of Guy Debord and the Situationists. Psychogeography continues to find retrospective validation in much earlier traditions, from the visionary writing of William Blake and Thomas De Quincey to the rise of the flaneur and the avant-garde experimentation of the Surrealists.
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