Psychogeography

Machen once again seeks out the strange and otherworldly within our midst – a single street, event or object capable of transforming the most mundane surroundings into something strange or sinister, revealing that point of access, called the Northwest Passage

Rimbaud was to coin the verb robinsonner, meaning to travel mentally,

all share a perception of the city as a site of mystery and seek to reveal the true nature that lies beneath the flux of the everyday.

The successful navigation of such a city is dependent upon the composition of a mental map, which can be transposed upon its physical layout,

remapping of London through an alignment of those churches designed by the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor.

wealth and respectability conceal the existence of poverty and depravity.

the tradition of writer as walker

the act of urban wandering, the spirit of political radicalism, allied to a playful sense of subversion and governed by an inquiry into the methods by which we can transform our relationship to the urban environment.

Patrick Keiller’s films London and Robinson in Space