Psychogeography

dramatise the city as a place of dark imaginings.

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

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

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.

Hawksmoor

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

Hegelian terminology

the films of Patrick Keiller.

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