December 02, 2003
Psychogeography
socialfiction.org is building PML a psychogeographical markup language although I'm only slightly sure what that means. Psychogeography is a concept that's been buzzing in the periphery of my information flows for a while now, but I've never quite explored it. But glowlab, -: nicolas nova and socialfiction.org seem like the places to start. Coincidentally I just got a copy ofpsychogeography is a concept introduced by the situationist at the end of the 50s, to reclaim the city at a moment where european cities were heavily 'reconstructed' and were organically grown slums were turned into le corbusier-esque vertical concrete ghettos.
Posted by: laurent on December 2, 2003 11:53 PMno i think turow is talking about something very different and in a sense, completely against what the situationists meant by 'psychogeography'
turow is referring i think to a kind of demographic bandwith of locality-mindset the adverstiser can begin to imprint and bombard.
On the other hand, deriving(drifting), semi-aimlessly wandering the city using oblique stragegies as in psychogeography can be an anarchic weapon useful for protection against such inane corporate collonisations of the unconscious used by the sadvertisers.
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Posted by: zooph on December 8, 2003 08:00 AM
