August Flânerie
Just watch people hurrying busily through the streets. They seem preoccupied, look neither left nor right, but have their eyes fixed on the ground like dogs. They rush straight ahead, but always without looking where they are going, for they are mechanically covering a well-known route, mapped out in advance. It is exactly the same in all the great
... See moreTo find a manner of anonymity, to experience that dreadful thing we call “blending in,” can be a kind of haven. It is not to become untethered but to become a part of. To walk a street apprehending you are one small refrain in a holy cacophony, and as the place becomes more familiar, your own selfhood becomes more lucid.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
the act of urban wandering, the spirit of political radicalism, allied to a playful sense of subversion and governed by an inquiry into the methods by which we can transform our relationship to the urban environment.
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
As Mireille Silcoff noted in a piece exploring how real life subcultures have been reduced to online aesthetic trends: ‘youth culture’ comes alive when the sun goes down, and by stopping young people from hanging out in cities at night, they’re ultimately cutting off the lifeblood of these scenes: “ the youth belong at the rave, at the block party,... See more
Alexi Gunner • Idle Gaze 062: Dawn Chorus / Dusk Chorus
À Paris, la cohue de la capitale, la course perpétuelle ou encore les amours inutiles permettaient de couvrir tout bruissement. Bien sûr, il restait les heures creuses de la nuit pour le ressusciter, et il arrivait à Émile de se faire surprendre parfois par une pensée ou un souvenir. Le temps d’écrire à nouveau.
Éric Metzger • La Citadelle (French Edition)
Le philosophe du XXe siècle Walter Benjamin était captivé par l’idée du flâneur. Il écrivit une œuvre monumentale intitulée Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle - le livre des passages, qui est une anthologie de milliers de réflexions et d’aphorismes dont certains de sa plume. Il s’agit d’un classique de la flânerie. Le lecteur imagine facilement Benjami
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