tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791325942282074959.post2261722366678329217..comments2020-07-13T22:30:24.320-04:00Comments on Ekistomancy: A Survey of the Printed Fiction of the Field To DateConnor Sites-Bowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01380372586813844648noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791325942282074959.post-30769538496620103492009-09-22T05:46:41.575-04:002009-09-22T05:46:41.575-04:00Beautiful blog, my friend.Beautiful blog, my friend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791325942282074959.post-89059711375467216722009-09-22T01:07:59.835-04:002009-09-22T01:07:59.835-04:00I also forgot to mention John Constantine: Hellbla...I also forgot to mention <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellblazer" rel="nofollow"><i>John Constantine: Hellblazer</i></a>, perhaps because it is so obviously linked to ekistomancy- Constantine uses all kinds of magic, including city magic, but gets by mostly on that more mundane city magic- street smarts.Connor Sites-Bowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01380372586813844648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791325942282074959.post-6857308664900522452009-09-22T00:33:33.431-04:002009-09-22T00:33:33.431-04:00I've also been pointed to A Madness of Angels,...I've also been pointed to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316041254" rel="nofollow">A Madness of Angels</a>, supposedly both an Urban Fantasy novel and readable.Connor Sites-Bowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01380372586813844648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791325942282074959.post-40056728079227900152009-09-21T16:57:15.672-04:002009-09-21T16:57:15.672-04:00Excellent question! Psychogeography is already on ...Excellent question! Psychogeography is already on my list of things to include in my next Survey of the Field, this one aimed at capturing all of the Literary, Artistic and Architectural theory that step-stone their way towards a Theory of Urban Magic.<br /><br />I am to continue these Survey posts to cover Movies and Web Resources as well.<br /><br />I am, though, writing other posts too, about actual tools, tips, and practice, which might become its own series.<br /><br />A Psychogeographical Assosciation? Sign me up!<br /><br />If I may ask, how did you find this blog? It has only been up for a day or so.Connor Sites-Bowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01380372586813844648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791325942282074959.post-71305342236253739422009-09-21T16:14:58.915-04:002009-09-21T16:14:58.915-04:00Could psychogeography be included? The practice/wo...Could psychogeography be included? The practice/word was invented by the situationists, but they borrowed it from the dadaists and surrealists.<br /><br />Looking for a handy psychogeographical quote, I found this;<br /><br />An example of a situation-creating technique is the dérive. The dérive is the first step toward an urban praxis. It is a stroll through the city by several people who are out to understand the "psychogeographical articulation of the modern city". The strollers attempt an interpretive reading of the city, an architectural understanding. They look at the city as a special instance of repressed desires. At the same time, they engage in "playful reconstructive behavior". Together they turn the city around. They see in the city unifying and empowering possibilities in place of the present fragmentation and pacification. This "turning around" or détournment is a key strategic concept of the Situationists. Détournment is a dialectical tool. It is an "insurrectional style" by which a past form is used to show its own inherent untruth-- an untruth masked by ideology. It can be applied to billboards, to written texts, to films, to cartoons, etc., as well as to city spaces. Marx used it when he "turned Hegel on his head." He used the dialectic in the study of history to expose the ideological nature of Hegel's idealism. The Situationists use détournment to demonstrate the scandalous poverty of everyday life despite the plenty of commodities. They attempted to demonstrate the contrast between what life presently is and what it could be. They wanted to rupture the spell of the ideology of our commodified consumer society so that our repressed desires of a more authentic nature could come forward. The situation is based on liberated desires rather than alienated ones. What these desires are cannot be stated a priori. They will emerge in the revolutionary process of situation-creation, of détournment. Presumably, communality, unification, and public urban space will emerge as more desirable than commodification, fragmentation, and privatization. <br /><br /><br />There is (was or perhaps will be) a Pittsburgh Psychogeographical Association.<br /><br />http://www.mappingpittsburgh.com/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00408247734977827776noreply@blogger.com