Category: psychogeography
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In Praise of the Pub Crawl
Monopoly Pub Crawl Route: Taken from https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/8mjd27/we_did_the_monopoly_pub_crawl_for_my_stag_do/ In the emotionally-draining, exploitative and burn-out fuelling drudgery of modern urban capitalist life, there are decreasingly few means of escape in which new spaces of the city are explored unintentionally, and new social connections can be forged. Within this urban hellscape though, a…
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Advertising, Desire and post-capitalism
Kylie Jenner’s infamous Pepsi ad, that was pulled after a public outcry that it trivialised the Black Live Matter protests in 2017 Advertising shits in your head. It permeates every aspect of our waking (and perhaps soon, non-waking) lives, manipulating our innermost desires, and shaping our perception of what we…
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Walking the Edge: The interstitiality of the Blackwater Valley Path
I’ve lived in the Blackwater Valley area for nearly a decade now, and as a keen runner and walker, I have frequently come across the wayfinding infrastructure of the Blackwater Valley Path. It became one of those ritualistic things whereby I would mentally log that I needed to research the…
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A line of flight? A Psychogeographic venture on Newcastle’s Skywalks
Newcastle was once touted as the ‘Brasilia of the North‘ by an ambitious town planner, T. Dan Smith. That was back in the 1960s when cities were seen as plastic crucibles to mould into concrete utopias, but half a century (and a corruption conviction again the Labour City Councillor that…