Will Self, an obsession with walking

Subverse, Traverse, Drift

• Will Self's obsession with walking, 5 day walk
• Impact of physical environment on the human psyche 
• De-coupling physical from human coupling,
• He says the Situationist international were 'A tiny group of insufferable highly pretentious artists' Paris 1950's
• Avant garde art + radical politics + cartography
• Destroy capitalism and transform urban space
• They used the derive, walking on foot wherever they liked, recording impressions as they went. cutting up the map and reassembling it as they wished, The Naked City
• Guy Debord 1967, powerful attack on western society came in the form of a book 'The Society of the Spectacle,' his view was that the modern city reflects the statement of Work, Consume, Die 
• Causing nation wide violence and strikes.
• A city is a concept, a unified whole. 

Ford, S. (2013). Potlach, Psychogeography, Derive, and Detournement. The Situationist International (1st ed., pp. 34). London, UK: Black Dog.