Psychogeography

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Man of the Crowd.

wealth and respectability conceal the existence of poverty and depravity.

the tradition of writer as walker

Psychogeography: a beginner’s guide. Unfold a street map of London, place a glass, rim down, anywhere on the map, and draw round its edge. Pick up the map, go out into the city, and walk the circle, keeping as close as you can to the curve. Record the experience as you go, in whatever medium you favour: film, photograph, manuscript, tape. Catch the

‘The study of the specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals.’2

Hawksmoor

dramatise the city as a place of dark imaginings.

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.

Hegelian terminology