Rachel's Reading Suggestions

This is Rachel's email from Friday, December 4, 2009:

Well for quick access and overview I would actually suggest going to the wikipedia entries (apologies to any purist art historians !) for Pyschogeography and the Derive which give a good overview and loads of links to texts and other sites and some of the maps etc.... Then you can follow as you see fit depending on time.

For further resesarch:

As Susannah suggested at google books – The most radical gesture: the Situationist International in a postmodern age By Sadie Plant – there are the first 27 pages which is a good introduction to the politics, philosophy, social context of the Situationists.

And then archives of SI texts and manifestos see:

www.notbored.org/SI-texts.html - Situationists Manifestos etc

http://library.nothingness.org/articles/4/en/display/2 - Debord on psychogeography

http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/314 - Debord on the derive


BUT – should we also perhaps think of discussing the ‘strategies of transformation’ or the transformative in Peter and Helge’s article in the read? Just an idea.