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Wanderings in Psychogeography Wanderings in Psychogeography: Exploring Landscapes of History, Biography, Memory, Culture, Nature, Poetry, Surreality, Fantasy, and Madness (11.S942) Syllabus and Orientation Notes Ezra Haber Glenn, Lecturer Fall 2017 1 Contact Information name email office office hours Ezra Haber Glenn [email protected] 7-337 Tues. 9{10AM Class website: http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/11/fa17/11.S942 2 Overview In his seminal article, \Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography" (1955), Lettrist/Situationist founder Guy Debord called for a new field of inquiry, to be known as \psychogeography," established to study \the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals." Despite this apparent attempt at concrete definition, the field of psychogeog- raphy has eluded the methodological and theoretical formalization common in other disciplines | it is, at heart, an undisciplined discipline | being more frequently associated with what even Debord himself referred to as \a rather pleasing vagueness." (Indeed, one suspects a tongue-in-cheek smirk behind De- bord's insistence on a \precise" and \specific” approach | the gentleman doth protest too much, methinks.) Equally important, although the Situationists may have been the first to recognize and name it, the practice of psychogeographical inquiry can be traced back though centuries of historical precedents and influences found in travel- ogues, real and invented biographies, opium-induced confessions, playful and 1 surreal works of art, and other literary, poetic, and geographical flights of fan- ciful reality (and realistic fantasy). Similarly, the past 60 years have seen further flourishing (albeit perhaps \underground flourishing,” reminiscent of the growth pattern of psychotropic subterranean fungi. ) in the field from novelists, poets, and essayists (Ackroyd, Ballard, Sebald, Self, Sinclair, Solnit), as well as geographers and planners (in- cluding DUSP's own Kevin Lynch, who explored mental maps of urban spaces), photographers, filmmakers, anarchist communitarians, guerrilla artists, land- scape painters, musicians, game designers, and others. As a result, the quest to define \psychogeography" may in fact be a form of psychogeographical wandering itself | possibly futile, but nonetheless fun, fascinating, and rife with hidden meanings. (Or perhaps it is just one big inside joke. .) Through this seminar-style class we will explore the history, present, and future of psychogeography, hoping to map the center and the edges of this elusive field and to pioneer potential new directions and applications for the principles we discover (or invent) along the way. Class will meet once/week to discuss classic and more recent texts | including novels, essays, poems, reviews, films, and other works of creative nonfiction and speculative fiction. Students will also undertake their own psychogeographic wanderings and complete a final \carto-imagino-synthetic" project to document, describe, map, and otherwise \make sense of place" through these techniques. 3 Logistics 3.1 Structure of the Class This is a seminar class, which means a few important things: a. The class will be small, and everyone is expected to participate; each of us is responsible for bringing material in to our discussions. b. The goal of the class is not for me to \convey" knowledge to you, but rather for us to work together to explore and generate ideas. (The term \seminar" originally comes from the Latin word for \plant nursery" or \seed plot" | it's where insights for learning are generated.) To \seed" our discussions, students will write short reflection notes on the week's readings (see below). 3.2 Credits 9 (nine). 2 3.3 Assignments In addition to reading and participation, students are asked to complete the following assignments: weekly reflections: After completing the assigned readings each week,1 please write down your thoughts in the form of brief (1{2 pages) reflections; these can take a variety of forms: short musings prompted by the material, an essay on a single aspect that struck you as noteworthy, or even a comparison or contrast of some key aspects. Questions for discussion are encouraged as well. final psychogeographic project: By the end of the semester, each student will prepare and present a psychogeographic work based on their own exploration of some real or imagined place. Elements may include po- etry or prose; photography, film, sound, smell, and tactilometry; bits, atoms, data, signal, and noise; history, biography, cartography, imagi- nation; blood, sweat, spleen, and other humorous elements; spirit, soul, pathos, hopes, dreams, memories, traces, hints, will-o-wisps, fears, night- mares, and whatever else you discover or invent along the way. (More details will be provided as the course progresses and we figure out what this subject is even about. .) 3.4 Walks, Tours, Explorations From time to time over the semester, students are welcome to attend | and en- couraged to organize | optional group walks to explore various sites and neigh- borhoods, to put into practice the psychogeographic principles we are reading about. Individual d´erives and attempts at d´etournement are also recommended. All class participants will be eligible for membership in the Tech Sychogeo- graphic Psociety (TSP), with all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto. 3.5 Grading Final grades for the class will be based on the following formula: Weekly Reflections 11 x 5 = 55% Class Participation 25% Final Project 20% Random Surrealist Coin Toss 1% Total 101% Notes: - Weekly reflections are due for 11 of the 12 weeks with readings; students may miss one week without excuse or penalty. 1Note: you are allowed to miss one week without excuse or penalty 3 - Class participation grade includes preparation of discussion questions when assigned. 3.6 Office Hours I've posted office hours for the class, and I'm always happy to meet with you if you need to talk about something; if you are planning on coming, please let me know in advance, so I can make sure I'm free. If these times don't work with your schedule, we can easily arrange some other time to meet outside of class|just email or talk to me in person and we'll figure something out. 4 Schedule 4.1 Weekly Topics/Readings 09/11 Guy Debord and the Situationists: Ludo-Political Psychogeography Ivan Chtcheglov. Formulary for a new urbanism. In Ken Knabb, editor, Situationist International Anthology, pages 1{8. Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006. Originally published in 1953. Guy Debord. Introduction to a critique of urban geography. In Ken Knabb, editor, Situationist International Anthology, pages 8{12. Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006a. Originally published in 1955. Guy Debord. Theory of the D´erive. In Ken Knabb, editor, Situationist International Anthology, pages 62{66. Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006b. Originally published in 1958. Lettrist International. Proposals for rationally improving the city of Paris. In Ken Knabb, editor, Situationist International Anthology, pages 12{14. Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006. Originally published in 1955. Constant. Another city for another life. In Ken Knabb, editor, Situation- ist International Anthology, pages 71{73. Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006. Originally published in 1960. McKenzie Wark. The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life an Glorious Times of the Situationist International. Verso, 2011, chapters 2 (\No More Temples of the Sun") and 5 (\A Provisional Micro-Society"). Merlin Coverley. Psychogeography. Pocket Essentials, 2006, chapter 3 (\Guy Debord and the Situationist International"). Will Self. Psychogeography. Bloomsbury Press, 2007. Pictures by Ralph Steadman, \Introduction: Walking to New York." 09/18 Some Urban Planning Roots: Socio-Spatial Psychogeography Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess. The City: Suggestions for In- vestigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment. University of 4 Chicago, 1925, chapter 1 (\The City") Allan B. Jacobs. Looking at cities. Places, 1(4), 1984. Kevin Lynch. The Image of the City. MIT Press, 1960, chapters 1{2 (\The Image of the Environment" and \Three Cities"). Grady Clay. Close-Up: How to Read the American City. Praeger Publish- ers, 1973 (selections). Denis Wood. Lynch Debord: About two psychogeographies. Cartograph- ica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisu- alization, 45(3):185{199, September 2010. 09/25 18th and 19th Century London and Paris: Literary Ur-Psychogeography Daniel Defoe. Journal of the Plague Year. Oxford University Press, 2010. Originally published in 1722. William Blake. London, 1794. Online at https://www.poetryfoundation. org/poems/43673/london-56d222777e969. Edgar Allan Poe. The man of the crowd. In The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: the Raven Edition, volume 5. Project Gutenberg, 2008. Originally published in 1840; online at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2151/ 2151-h/2151-h.htm. Charles Baudelaire. The Parisian Prowler. University of Georgia, 1989. Originally published in 1861 as Le Spleen de Paris. Petits Po`emsen prose; translated by Edward K. Kaplan. 10/02 Weimar Wandering in Berlin and Paris, 1920-1940: Philosopho-Critical Psychogeography [Special Guest: Howard Eiland] Franz Hessel. Walking in Berlin: A Fl^aneurin the Capital. MIT, 2017. Originally published in 1929; translated by Amanda DeMarco, \The Sus- pect," \I Learn a Thing or Two," \A Bit of Work," and \A Tour." Walter Benjamin. The Arcades Project. Belknap/Harvard, 1999. Trans- lated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin; prepared on the basis of the German volume edited by Rolf Tiedemann, \Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century (1935)" and \Convolutes M: The Fl^aneur." Howard Eiland. Reality as palimpsest: On Benjamin's Arcades Project, April 15, 2010. Recorded lecture, available online at https://soundcloud. com/cirucberkeley/reality-as-palimpsest-on-benjamins-arcades-project-howard-eiland-4152010. Michel de Certeau. The Practice of Everyday Life. University of California Press, 1984. Originally published in 1980 in French as L'invention du quotidien; translated by Steven Rendall, chapter VII, \Walking in the City." Optional Reading: Walter Benjamin. One-Way Street. Belknap/Harvard, 2016. Edited by Michael W.
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