Psychogeography

A perfect primer for the misunderstood and muddled intellectual (and physical) practice of psychogeography, Coverley’s short book explores its origins in English lit (Defoe and De Quincy), into the Parisian flâneur, Debord and his Situationists, and the sometimes quite drear and humourless up-to-dat......more

Here's what I though: urban occult radicalism? Count me in! Especially if it includes the peripatetic practices.... But no, while I really liked the 'flaneur' parts, the rest felt particularly unfocused and even rambling. Defoe, Quincey, de Certeau, Debord, Stevenson and lots of other visionaries se......more

Quick read, good introduction, quite ridiculously repetitive at times to the extent of reusing whole sentences -- I agree with all that's been said. Not many remarked on quite how white and male and privileged it was also, there's so much I love about the approach and all of the authors in here but......more

The chief reward of reading a survey/secondary text is to generate excitement in the source material. By that metric, this work failed. I found it lazily repetitive, as if these were thumbnail sketches fastened into a loose tapestry and the idea that William Blake is "the Godfather of Psychogeograph......more

This little book by Merlin Coverley is a decent introduction to the subject of 'Psychogeography.' What is that exactly? Well, it's what I do on a regular basis, and now I know there is a name for it. In theory, one can take a map of your town, place a cup or glass on it. Trace the bottom of the glas......more