Psychogeography, Qu'est-Ce Que C'est?
Psychogeography sits at the uncertain boundary between the places we inhabit and the effect these environments have upon us. Some of its finest exponents include Edmund White, who offers a guide to his personal Paris, Italo Calvino, whose manifestation of Marco Polo recreates Venice through visions of other cities and Rebecca Solnit's explanation of how the best way to discover somewhere is to lose track of where you are.
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Iain Sinclair Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics - Ghost Milk explores a landscape under sentence of death... | Michael Symmons Roberts; Paul Farley Passed through, negotiated, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps. This title... |
Teju Cole Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental... | Geoff Nicholson The Lost Art of Walking is Geoff Nicholson's delightful ramble through the history and lore of walking. He brings pedestrianism back to the centre of life by musing on his... |
Peter Ackroyd Describes London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs. This title includes chapters on the history of silence and... | Matthew Beaumont; Gregory Dart The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a city-symphony to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, this... |
Alan Moore; Eddie Campbell; Eddie... | Thomas De Quincey Describes the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions, the author experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum. This book presents an account of the pleasures and pains of opium... |
Walter Benjamin; J.A. Underwood; Amit... Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This title brings together Benjamin's major works... | Will Self What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead... |
Charles Baudelaire Explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist. This book describes the painter who expresses most fully the drama of modern life. | Arthur Machen Offers an exercise in the bizarre leaving you disoriented and on edge. From the first page, the author turns even fundamental truths upside-down, as his character Ambrose explains, "there have... |
Anna Minton Have these gleaming business districts, mega malls and gated developments led to 'regeneration', or have they intensified social divisions and made us more fearful of each other? This book reveals... | Coverley, Merlin A philosophical history of that strange but prolific hybrid, the writer as walker, from biblical myth to Bruce Chatwin. |
Italo Calvino; William Weaver Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. | Daniel Defoe; Pat Rodgers Covers Britain in the early eighteenth century. |