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The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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The latest addition to Mark Shepherd's Sentient City Survival Kit packages up the best lessons of the Situationists into a handy psychogeographical iPhone App. As Rebecca Solnit has said, the great city of walkers and of revolution is Paris. It looked at Guy Debord's Correspondence (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e) 2008) and Tom McDonough's The Situationists and the City (London: Verso 2010). Tags: ambiance, city, cyborg, derive, detournement, flaneur, haptic, modernity, situationism, space, utopia. (McDonough “Situationist Space,” pg. Backpost on Space, Tom McDonough “Situationist Space”. City – Psychogeographic Microcosms. Just finished reading The Situationist City by Simon Sadler. This analysis begins by looking at Debord's Naked City map of Paris, defined by a psychogeographical space that is linked by 'unity of atmosphere'. According to Simon Sadler, author of "The Situationist City," the Situationists argued that professional architecture had led to "a sterilization of the world that threatened to wipe out any sense of spontaneity or playfulness. The City Is Wilder and Kinder Than You Think. The book is divided into three parts. 70 (2010), I contributed a review, titled 'Situating the Situationists'. Derive and Detournement: call back to situationism. The mid-twentieth century in Paris saw a movement identified as the Situationist International. 130606_Situationist City The Situationist City. SI member and utopian architect Constant's model of Yellow Sector, from Internationale Situationniste no.4, June 1960, shows the hanging Situationist city where play and residence are united. Considering the search for meaningful engagement in a society that feels increasingly fragmented, certain aspects of Situationist theory are more topical than ever. June 4th Simon Sadler, The Situationist City. (from the amazon blurb: "Simon Sadler searches for the Situationist City among the detritus of tracts, manifestos, and works of art that the SI left behind. Invited speakers include Simon Sadler, author of "The Situationist City".