Editing Psychogeography (section)

{{Short description|Creative view of the built environment that emphasizes playfulness and dérive}}

[[File:Liberatelondon.GIF|thumb|Psychogeography involves self published reports and maps, using the [[Situationist]] technique of detournement - using pre-found elements and subverting them. evoL PsychogeogrAphix 2003]]

'''Psychogeography''' is the exploration of urban environments that emphasizes interpersonal connections to places and arbitrary routes. It was developed by members of the [[Letterist International]] and [[Situationist International]], which were revolutionary groups influenced by [[Marxism|Marxist]] and [[anarchist theory]] as well as the attitudes and methods of [[Dadaists]] and [[Surrealism|Surrealists]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the City|last=Caves|first=R. W.|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=9780415252256|pages=546}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Marcus|first=Greil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2okQBQAAQBAJ&q=father+hated|title=Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century|date=2014-10-09|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=978-0-571-26120-8|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Plant|first=Sadie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0eGIAgAAQBAJ&q=dada+surrealism+letterist+situationist|title=The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age|date=2002-01-22|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-92530-8|language=en}}</ref> 

In 1955, [[Guy Debord]] defined psychogeography as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/2|title=Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography|website=The Situationist International Text Library}}</ref> One of the key tactics for exploring psychogeography is the loosely defined urban walking practice known as the ''[[dérive]]''. As a practice and theory, psychogeography has influenced a broad set of cultural actors, including artists, activists and academics.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Richardson|first=Tina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ODaDwAAQBAJ&q=psychogeography|title=Walking Inside Out: Contemporary British Psychogeography|date=2015-07-07|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-78348-087-6|language=en}}</ref>