Psychogeography

wealth and respectability conceal the existence of poverty and depravity.

remapping of London through an alignment of those churches designed by the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor.

Hegelian terminology

represented by the motif of the imaginary voyage, a journey that reworks and re-imagines the layout of the urban labyrinth and which records observations of the city streets as it passes through them.

London is overlaid by the fictional and poetic reworking of successive figures, creating patterns of continuity and resonance that can be detected by those attuned to the city’s eternal and unchanging rhythms.

Paris, the figure of the solitary stroller who both records and comes to symbolize the emergence of the modern city has a name – the flâneur.

the films of Patrick Keiller.

the tradition of writer as walker

Rimbaud was to coin the verb robinsonner, meaning to travel mentally,