What does the Situationism of Guy Debord and Paris ’68 have to do with sustainability and the need to imagine better futures?
Tag: Psychogeography
Lockdown Walks: Taking It All In
This is Pt 2 of “Lockdown Walks: We’re all Flaneurs/euses Now” *(see Pt 1 here) showing how to get more out of your Lockdown exercise. Way before mindfulness was all the rage, walking had been identified as a way to be present and to work the brain in different ways. I’ve experimented with the idea…
Lockdown Walks: We’re All Flâneurs Now
“A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.” (Rebecca Solnit: ‘Wanderlust’) Just this morning – in a sustainability online group chat – to a guy who’s having a revelation rediscovering where he lives. He walks a different route…
Follow Me – I’m Lost!
FREE exploration of Pyschogeography for Antiunversity 2019…
Finding the Gold in Hackney
Finding the gold on the streets of Hackney with William Blake and the curious of London…
Debord and Chips? Situationist Charabanc to Margate
Adventure always! Hackney Tours has been up to the North following Ermine Street to its Roman conclusion; nightwalking in Kent on the trail of Dickens with Inspiral London; wild camping to report on shipping movements and smuggling
SHW the Group that Burned 10,000 Names
The KLF burned a million pounds on the isle of Jura in 1994 to make a statement and try (it’s said) to negate the all-pervasive power of money. On Tuesday on another island, Fish Island, Save Hackney Wick burned 10,000 names on a petition to mark the apparent failure (at the time of writing) to…