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The Situationist City by Simon Sadler

The Situationist City Simon Sadler ebook
Page: 352
Format: djvu
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ISBN: 0262193922, 9780585028286

The situationists were are radical group of artists, theorists and activists, mainly in Paris in the '60s. The City Is Wilder and Kinder Than You Think. The Situationist movement emerged as a critique of capitalism in 1957 and played a key role in the May 1968 uprising in Paris. The dérive was a course of preparation, reconnaissance, a means of shaping situationist psychology among urban explorers for the eventuality of the situationist city. According to Simon Sadler, author of "The Situationist City," the Situationists argued that professional architecture had led to "a sterilization of the world that threatened to wipe out any sense of spontaneity or playfulness. One of its central ideas was “derive” or drift — wandering aimlessly through the streets of the city, open to real experience instead of being a passive slave to spectacle. Diverse By taking dérives across neighbourhoods of the city, the drifters capture their emotions for the terrain with photos, verses or collages on a map, which eventually represent their psychology and for that reason the outcome is called 'psychogeographic map' (e.g. 'Allure' is an experiment in SITUATIONIST CINEMA. Posted by The Situationist Staff on January 5, 2009. Wark notes also the breakdown of divisions between subject and exteriority, incorporating a collective experience of the city as “psychogeography”. The latest addition to Mark Shepherd's Sentient City Survival Kit packages up the best lessons of the Situationists into a handy psychogeographical iPhone App. During its short period of existence, the Situationists' ideas had a great impact on the revolution of May 1968 and this historical event made them recognisable in various circles. The Situationists' focus on the city has been central to McDonough's choice of documents. Last month, Rick Montgomery wrote an interesting article, “Behavioral Economics Is Moving from Theory to Policy,” for the Kansas City Star. Situationism was an urban movement, based primarily in Paris. Exploring the potential of public spaces. Sadler, Simon, “A New Babylon. The Situationist International, led by Guy Debord and central to the Paris uprising in May 1968, published many incendiary texts on politics and art in the journal Internationale Situationniste. He seeks to redefine notions of the Situationists' urban critique, arguing that instead it persisted throughout the group's duration. "Play and the Urban Realm", in The Ludic City.