Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Iain Sinclair has a new book out in the UK and the Guardian has a nice write up on him.
Situationism is a popular thing to cannibalize, so many have gnawed on its bones already. I was thinking of psychogeography this weekend, bike riding the dog for a run through empty subterranean parking garages of corporate metroplex, the streets blocked by dozens of emergency vehicles on drill.
Iain's alright. I've read his Ripper book. He tend to go off on stream-of-consciousness tangents though. And London has a lot of lived in history to inspire the psyche. A fecundity missing in the sterile engineered company metropolis; empty on weekends. ¶ 10:45 PM
Psychogeography is a talismanic term that Sinclair understands to have been cannibalised from French situationism. 'For me, it's a way of psychoanalysing the psychosis of the place in which I happen to live. I'm just exploiting it because I think it's a canny way to write about London. "
Situationism is a popular thing to cannibalize, so many have gnawed on its bones already. I was thinking of psychogeography this weekend, bike riding the dog for a run through empty subterranean parking garages of corporate metroplex, the streets blocked by dozens of emergency vehicles on drill.
Iain's alright. I've read his Ripper book. He tend to go off on stream-of-consciousness tangents though. And London has a lot of lived in history to inspire the psyche. A fecundity missing in the sterile engineered company metropolis; empty on weekends. ¶ 10:45 PM
