Psychogeography

[regohemia]

So I probably ought to explain what this psychogeography thing is, since I've rambled about it before.

There's really like three parts to psychogeography, in my perspective: its history within theoretical context, its purpose as it was created, and what it's being used for now. I'll start with the beginning.

In the 60's in France there was a guy

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[suburban_gypsy]

Are you familiar with Foucault?

[regohemia]

I laughed so hard I almost peed myself with your first comment.

To your second comment... yes, somewhat, passingly, thought more intensely with every read of a postmodernist anything.

I ask why you ask because I know lots of people with lots of reads of Foucault.

-Me

[suburban_gypsy]

Ha. Yes. That would have been good, wouldn't it? It was early and it was just a flub, and instead of deciding to address it in a new comment I just deleted it and started over. It wasn't until just now I realized the simple humor of, "Are you Foucault?"

[suburban_gypsy]

And to answer your question in response to my second comment, I'm not too familiar with Foucault myself. A bunch of my friends just took a women's studies class where they read Discipline and Punish. Your post reminded me of their secondhand explanations of his take on the Panopticon. If all I ever end up getting in life is secondhand Foucault, I'll probably be okay with that.

[regohemia]

Huh.
I suppose there's some of that in what I was writing.
If you'd like, I can speed read through some Foucault and we can talk about it over coffee sometime. Unless you're not interested, in which case I won't bother : )

-Me

[nyuanshin]

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