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flâneur (one who strolls, observes and enjoys),

Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain

The crowd is the flâneur’s indispensable counterpart: the crowd turns people into observable objects . In Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Man in the Crowd’ the protagonist pursues an intriguing figure through the streets of London for a whole night without ever being able to see his face: in big cities, one can stroll through busy streets without recognisin... See more

Alexander • August Flânerie

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.

Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography

Baudelaire’s flâneur walked the streets of nineteenth-century Paris chronicling the theatre of urban life. Woolf’s flâneuse was an oyster of perceptiveness. The act of wandering in her words was street haunting.

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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

tom Hodgkinson • L'art d'être oisif: ... dans un monde de dingue (LIENS QUI LIBER) (French Edition)

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The rational flâneur is someone who, unlike a tourist, makes a decision at every step to revise his schedule, so he can imbibe things based on new information,

Nassim Taleb • Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

Walking, for me, is not about exercise. It's about wandering. It's about observing and reflecting. It's about having a call option on communication with the rest of the world. But the call option is mine not yours. The French, not surprisingly, uniquely have a verb for this-le flaneur.