
Psychogeography

the films of Patrick Keiller.
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remapping of London through an alignment of those churches designed by the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor.
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all share a perception of the city as a site of mystery and seek to reveal the true nature that lies beneath the flux of the everyday.
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Man of the Crowd.
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Rimbaud was to coin the verb robinsonner, meaning to travel mentally,
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
the tradition of writer as walker
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
The successful navigation of such a city is dependent upon the composition of a mental map, which can be transposed upon its physical layout,
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
Patrick Keiller’s films London and Robinson in Space
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writers such as Defoe, de Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Machen, paints a uniformly dark picture of the city as the site of crime, poverty and death.