- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Essentials; 1 edition (16 May 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904048617
- ISBN-13: 978-1904048619
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 292,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A short, but valuable book.' --Niall Griffiths, The Daily Telegraph
'A short guide to psychogeography for beginners.' -- Sukhdev Sandhu, The New Statesman
'Helps explain why psychogeography has become such a buzzword in Britain...an insightful
examination' --Machenalia
'A fascinating read.' --Buzz Magazine
`It would be a fitting tribute to Coverley's unfussy and informative book if it encouraged people in
other cities to try psychogeography.'
--Stuart Kelly, Scotland On Sunday
'A short guide to psychogeography for beginners.' -- Sukhdev Sandhu, The New Statesman
'Helps explain why psychogeography has become such a buzzword in Britain...an insightful
examination' --Machenalia
'A fascinating read.' --Buzz Magazine
`It would be a fitting tribute to Coverley's unfussy and informative book if it encouraged people in
other cities to try psychogeography.'
--Stuart Kelly, Scotland On Sunday
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Psychogeography. Increasingly this term is used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas from key lines and the occult, to urban walking and political radicalism. But where does it come from and what exactly does it mean? This book examines the origins of Psychogeography in the Situationist Movement of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political applications as well as the work of early practitioners such as Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem. Elsewhere, psychogeographic ideas continue to find retrospective validation in much earlier traditions from the visionary writing of William Blake and Thomas De Quincey to the rise of the flaneur on the streets of 19th century Paris and on through the avant-garde experimentation of the Surrealists. These precursors to Psychogeography are discussed here alongside their modern counterparts, for today these ideas hold greater currency than ever through the popularity of writers and filmmakers such as Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd, Stewart Home and Patrick Keiller. From Urban Wandering to Cognitive Mapping, from the Derive to Detournement, "Psychogeography" provides us with new ways of apprehending our surroundings, transforming the familiar streets of our everyday experience into something new and unexpected. This guide conducts the reader through this process, offering both an explanation and definition of the terms involved, an analysis of the key figures and their work as well as practical information on Psychogeographical groups and organisations.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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hand in chtcheglov,
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This review is from: Psychogeography (Pocket Essentials) (Hardcover)
i have sympathy for the positive and the negative reviews of this book, though i must say i zipped through it and liked it a lot. it is a 'pocket essential' introduction to the ideas of psychogeography. it traces psychogeography from bases in london (defoe, machen, blake, de quincey, sinclair, home, keiller) and paris (baudelaire, benjamin, debord). It introduces the ideas and although there is much left out [i personally think frank o'hara is the psychogeographer of new york] and although it is very london-paris-centric it does raise questions and gives interesting facts. Not bad at all, but I'm waiting on a really really great intro to psychogeography. oh and i agree with the reviewer who said merlin requires a better editor and proof reader. i went looking for chtcheglov's name spelled chtchelgov, since that is how it is spelled at one time in the book, and at others it is spelled correctly. i mean: is it not a difficult enough name as it is???
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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a very useful introduction to a particular area of p-g,
By Ed Alexander "fromZtoA" (Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Psychogeography (Pocket Essentials) (Hardcover)
Despite Pilgrim's mostly accurate (but rather unkind) review, this is an engaging introduction to psychogeography's London/Paris-centric literary aspects. If you take it as a good analysis of this one facet, you'll be more than well enough rewarded. Time for "updated and enlarged" Mr Coverley?
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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As straightforward as the title suggests...,
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This review is from: Psychogeography (Pocket Essentials) (Hardcover)
...although it could have been called "Psychogeography - an overview" or "introduction". Coverly succeeds in giving the reader a cogent, lyrical and sober account of the roots and genetic history of the subject. It could so easily have been a wilfully obscure or overly complicated un-decoding of the subject and ended up as a pretentious meta text that would have succeeded in doing no more than proving how difficult Psychogeography is to pin down, let alone articulate. However, full marks (well, four out of five) to Coverly for writing a book that explains clearly the 'who what how and why' of Psychogeography. The only minor criticism is that there is some repetition of content which makes it read occasionally like a very good undergraduate dissertation. This isn't necessarily a bad thing as at least you do feel as though your are being directed by a passionate voice through the back alleys of this playful and curious subject.
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