{"id":1403,"date":"2006-12-21T13:26:03","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T17:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:05:07","slug":"perverse-psychogeography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/12\/21\/perverse-psychogeography\/","title":{"rendered":"Perverse Psychogeography?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Psychogeography<\/a>” seems to be generally considered a relatively benign observational activity — a random drifting through the city to experience the effect of “the geographical environment on the emotions and behaviour of individuals.”<\/p>\n

Some inhabitants of London, England have taken an interventionist, and rather less benign, approach. A friend recently forwarded this email invitation to me:<\/p>\n

SAVAGE MESSIAH NEW YEAR’S EVE DRIFT….a psychogeographic trawl through London’s repressed desires………………………….
\nMAPPING AND SURVEILLANCE ON THE STREETS AND UNDERGROUND NETWORK………………….<\/p>\n

……………..’key themes FOR CONSIDERATION……..’ may include…….MASS TRESPASS, SPONTANEOUS OUTBREAKS OF MOB VIOLENCE, CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, ARSON ATTACKS, KEBABYLON MAYHEM, GATECRASHING……………..<\/p>\n

……BRING
\nbooze
\nchalk
\nspraypaint
\npens
\ncameras
\nnotebooks
\nDAT machines
\nsoundsystems<\/p>\n

…..all events, dialogue, mayhem will be chanelled back into a special issue of Savage Messiah
\nThe drift will be monitored via mobile phone tracking technology and map grid references will be podcast.<\/p>\n

ASSEMBLE @ THE FOUNDRY, GREAT EASTERN STREET\/OLD ST 9PM for schizoid cartography ( erratic map manufacturing on beer mats), plotting and fuelling up.<\/p>\n

DEPART AFTER MIDNIGHT<\/p>\n

DESTINATION UNKNOWN.<\/p>\n

Forget paying a tenner to get into your local or staying in one boring party, SAVAGE MESSIAH URGES YOU TO TAKE TO THE STREETS!!!!!!!. Fuck organised, state sanctioned entertainment.
\nLORD COE, YOUR PROJECT WILL FAIL.
\nDEATH TO THE GODS OF MOUNT OLYMPUS!!!!!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reference to Lord Coe refers the man who led London’s successful bid to host the Summer Olympics in 2012. This invitation derives from a London zine called “Savage Messiah” put out by one Laura Norder<\/a> (Laura Oldfield Ford).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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