not another psychogeography blog
explorations in urban decay, renewal and utopia
Due to be published 22 April 2022 Psychogeography usually refers to radical and artistic ways of walking or to a conflation of psychology with geography. In this unique work, the author makes arguments for considering psychogeography as a way to critique the contemporary world and to consider new ways of studying the interface of human... Continue Reading →
The 'Woven' festival is about celebrating the textile industry across the Kirklees region. As part of a 2 week programme of events, I went on a textile art walk on the Pennine Moors just above Marsden. The walk was led by a researcher and weaver with interests in textiles and rural landscapes. At the beginning... Continue Reading →
The 'return' of the 4th World Congress of Psychogeography! 7th-8th September at Heritage Quay in Huddersfield. More details via this link: http://4wcop.org/#page-top
Shot of the ceiling of a casino in Leeds: Photo by guest photographer Alex J Bridger (April 2018)
IAN PARKER TALK AND BOOK LAUNCH – REVOLUTIONARY KEY WORDS FOR A NEW LEFT Wednesday 13 December from 6pm-8pm in the Harold Wilson Building, ground floor, room 5 (HWG/05), University of Huddersfield. Map link here: https://www.hud.ac.uk/media/assets/document/maps/CampusMap.pdf Ian Parker (academic, activist, analyst) will speak about his new book Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left with David... Continue Reading →
David Bollinger and Fenella Brandenberg are world leading psychogeographers! If you want to find out more about their work do come to the Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography at Heritage Quay from the 8-10th September 2017. Further details available at: http://4wcop.org
I've been researching the battle of Waterloo, the Napoleonic Wars and also learning about wargaming for the past couple of months. So on the 18th June 2015 I decided to combine my interests with political history, wargaming and psychogeography by doing a dérive in the 'other' Waterloo in Huddersfield. The point of such a walk... Continue Reading →
As part of a series of events in relation to the World Congress of Perambulatory Sutures, two very special events took place - the Class Wargames collective hosted a participatory performance of Debord's Game of War at the University of Huddersfield on the 13th May and the first of several book launch events for an... Continue Reading →
Question: How does one 'do' deconstruction and detournement without it becoming simply an academic enterprise? Answer: Laibach !!! What's interesting about this metal/industrial/rock German band is their use of situationist strategies such as detournement and provocation and also their discursive deconstruction of ideas such as nation state, capitalism and immigration - for more info check... Continue Reading →
Many moons ago there existed a broadly psychogeographical group called the bored in the city collective. They were a group of radical academics, artists and activists from Manchester, Stockport and Huddersfield. They used to do lots of random things like burying time capsules, lunar water walks and undertaking political studies of gentrification of towns and... Continue Reading →
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