Post_Geographies_02 Eventscape 00_L11

Post_Geographies_02 Eventscape 00_L11

SURFACE AS ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION Collaged Surface Analogon TERM OF EXTERNAL MEDIATION Technology + Advertisement = Media UNREPRESENTABLE REAL Emergent consumer-communication culture of 1950s-60s

SURFACE AS ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION Collaged Surface Analogon TERM OF EXTERNAL MEDIATION Technology + Advertisement = Media Social Imagination/Imaginary = Present = Past = Future (Narrative/Myth) UNREPRESENTABLE REAL Emergent consumer-communication culture of 1950s-60s

Analogon TERM OF EXTERNAL MEDIATION Technology + Advertisement = Media Literary Culture/Post-Modern Imagination Narrative Patterns of Perception Surface is Image of Thought: 1) The Symbolic/The Imaginary/The Real 2) Being-in-Situation : Situationiste The real consumer becomes a consumer of illusions. The commodity is the factually real illusion, and the spectacle its general manifestation. Guy Debord

1) The Symbolic/The Imaginary/The Real

2) Being-in-Situation : Situationiste

Formulary for a New Urbanism Gilles Ivain [Ivan Chtcheglov] October 1953 printed in Internationale Situationniste #1 Translated by Ken Knabb Sire, I am from another country WE ARE BORED in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That s lost. We know how to read every promise in faces the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry: Showerbath of the Patriarchs Meat Cutting Machines Notre Dame Zoo Sports Pharmacy Martyrs Provisions Translucent Concrete Golden Touch Sawmill Center for Functional Recuperation Sainte Anne Ambulance Café Fifth Avenue Prolonged Volunteers Street Family Boarding House in the Garden Hotel of Strangers Wild Street And the swimming pool on the Street of Little Girls. And the police station on Rendezvous Street. The medical-surgical clinic and the free placement center on the Quai des Orfèvres. The artificial flowers on Sun Street. The Castle Cellars Hotel, the Ocean Bar and the Coming and Going Café. The Hotel of the Epoch. And the strange statue of Dr. Philippe Pinel, benefactor of the insane, in the last evenings of summer. Exploring Paris. The main activity of the inhabitants will be CONTINUOUS DRIFTING. The changing of landscapes from one hour to the next will result in total disorientation....

You as me if I have found Paris to my liking? Without doubt; it is magnificent, And I who am not easily astonished have been amazed to see the Palais-Royal. The first time you see it, you think you are entering a fairy palace. There you find everything you could desire: spectacles, magnificent buildings, promendades, fashions..and the boulevards, where you see grottoes of rocks, small houses,all All very pretty.you could say that this is the most agreeable landscape there is. C. Fourier to his mother, January 1790

Détournement: a detour, a derailment, to present the other Any elements, no matter where they are taken from, can be used to make new combinations. The discoveries of modern poetry regarding the analogical structure of images demonstrate that when two objects are brought together, no matter how far apart their original contexts may be, a relationship is always formed. Restricting oneself to a personal arrangement of words is mere convention. The mutual interference of two worlds of feeling, or the juxtaposition of two independent expressions, supersedes the original elements and produces a synthetic organization of greater efficacy. Anything can be used. Deriver: to divert water, to remove from the water s edge: to undo what is riveted. See river. Dérive: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiences. Dérives involve playfulconstructive behavior and awareness of psychogeographical effects, and are thus quite different from the classic notions of journey or stroll. The lessons drawn from dérives enable us to draft the first surveys of the psychogeographical articulations of a modern city.