Psychogeography

Merlin Coverley

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Author(s)

Merlin Coverley

Publication, year

Harpenden, Herts : Pocket Essentials, 2006

Scope

158 Pages, 19 cm.

ISBN

1904048617

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In this book the author examines the origins of psychogeography in the Paris of the 1950s, discussing the theoretical background and political significance of the ideas of early practioneers as Guy Debord. Also in much earlier traditions from the visionary writing of William Blake and Thomas De Quincey to the rise of the flaneur and the surrealists.

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Location

Cabinet 32 - 3: Situationisten ; provo

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.