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Jan 20 '12
Eighteenth-century theorists had advocated the picturesque and sublime as stimulants to reverie. Then the intention had been to overcome the excessively ordered universe envisioned by the Enlightenment, so it seemed to follow that the sublime could induce new flights of fancy in a mid-twentieth-century city reshaped by the Enlightenment’s progeny, modernism. Psychogeography directed us to obscure places, to elusive ambient effects and partial artistic and literary precedents for the sublime. If we felt frustrated at the effort required to put them all together, we had missed the point. Psychogeography was a reverie, a state of mind conjured up in Debord and Jorn’s Mémoires, which left readers with the task of negotiating Jorn’s inky dribbles through Debord’s collage of text, maps, and illustration [photo above]. It represented a drift from the ideal and the rational to the extraordinary and revolutionary. -Simon Sadler, The Situationist City

Eighteenth-century theorists had advocated the picturesque and sublime as stimulants to reverie. Then the intention had been to overcome the excessively ordered universe envisioned by the Enlightenment, so it seemed to follow that the sublime could induce new flights of fancy in a mid-twentieth-century city reshaped by the Enlightenment’s progeny, modernism. Psychogeography directed us to obscure places, to elusive ambient effects and partial artistic and literary precedents for the sublime. If we felt frustrated at the effort required to put them all together, we had missed the point. Psychogeography was a reverie, a state of mind conjured up in Debord and Jorn’s Mémoires, which left readers with the task of negotiating Jorn’s inky dribbles through Debord’s collage of text, maps, and illustration [photo above]. It represented a drift from the ideal and the rational to the extraordinary and revolutionary.

-Simon Sadler, The Situationist City

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