Exercise in Psycho-Geography

By Guy-Ernest Debord

Potlatch #2 29 June 1954

Piranesi is psycho-geographical in the stairway.

Claude Lorrain is psycho-geographical in the juxtaposition of a palace neighborhood and the sea.

The postman Cheval is psycho-geographical in architecture.

Arthur Cravan is psycho-geographical in hurried drifting.

Jacques Vache is psycho-geographical in dress.

Louis II of Bavaria is psycho-geographical in royalty.

Jack the Ripper is probably psycho-geographical in love.

Saint-Just is a bit psycho-geographical in politics. (Terror is disorienting.)

Andre Breton is naively psycho-geographical in encounters.

Madeleine Reineri is psycho-geographical in suicide. (See Howls in Favor of de Sade.)

Along with Pierre Mabille in gathering together marvels, Evariste Gaullois in mathematics, Edgar Allan Poe in landscape, and Villiers de l'Isle Adam in agony.


[AUDIO RECORDINGS] [BACK ISSUES] [HOME] [LINKS] [SCANNER ABUSE] [SELECTED TEXTS] [TRANSLATIONS]

[LETTRIST INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE] [SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE]



To Contact Us:
Info@notbored.org
ISSN 1084-7340.
Snail mail: POB 1115, Stuyvesant Station, New York City 10009-9998