Psychogeography

Le philosophe du XXe siècle Walter Benjamin était captivé par l’idée du flâneur. Il écrivit une œuvre monumentale intitulée Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle - le livre des passages, qui est une anthologie de milliers de réflexions et d’aphorismes dont certains de sa plume. Il s’agit d’un classique de la flânerie. Le lecteur imagine facilement Benjami

flâneur (one who strolls, observes and enjoys),

Perhaps all of us walk among ghosts, along haunted streets. Oxford Street and Piccadilly teem with unseen millions. We brush past Virginia Woolf in Russell Square and Charles Dickens on the Strand. We glimpse shadowy figures at the end of ancient alleyways. We’re connected with the past and future – but we can’t always make sense of the connections

But desire lines may also be evidence of something more than pure practicality. The casual disobedience of a desire path as an alternative to the formally prescribed walkway is remarkable simply as a human choice, willfully out of step with the way things are.