There are 24 posts tagged psychogeography (this is page 2 of 5).
“Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors—home, car, gym, office, shops—disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same way one occupies those interiors. One lives in the whole world rather than in interiors built up against it.”
Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit.
“An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.”
Overlay, Lucy Lippard.
“Para viajar debería bastarnos sólo con nuestro cuerpo; pero las noches reclaman un abrigo; la lluvia, una capa; el baño, un traje limpio; el pensamiento, tinta y pinceles”.
Sendas de Oku, Matsuo Basho.
Today I’ve discovered that “gänger” means “goer”, “walker”, that adds a whole new meaning to the word Doppelgänger…
“Doppelgänger, “ghostly spirit” literally “double walker”, from Doppel (“duplicate, double”) + gänger (“goer”).”
“I had been wandering for upwards of an hour in fog as thick as spoiled milk. Fog is best for my night-work. The less one can see of what the city has become in this year, the better.”
Anno Dracula, Kim Newman.