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Psychogeography
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This book examines the origins of Psychogeography in the Situationist Movement of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political applications as well as the work of early practitioners such as Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem. Elsewhere, psychogeographic ideas continue to find retrospective validation in much earlier traditions from the visionary writing(...)
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This book examines the origins of Psychogeography in the Situationist Movement of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political applications as well as the work of early practitioners such as Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem. Elsewhere, psychogeographic ideas continue to find retrospective validation in much earlier traditions from the visionary writing of William Blake and Thomas De Quincey to the rise of the flâneur on the streets of 19th century Paris and on through the avant-garde experimentation of the Surrealists. These precursors to Psychogeography are discussed here alongside their modern counterparts, for today these ideas hold greater currency than ever through the popularity of writers and filmmakers such as Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd, Stewart Home and Patrick Keiller.
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Manuel de l'antitourisme
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Le tourisme est la première industrie mondiale, même s’il est pratiqué par seulement 3,5 % de la population…Un luxe réservé aux occidentaux qui, depuis l’avènement des congés payés, ont intégré « un devoir d’ailleurs et de loisirs ». Mais qui n’a pas senti ce malaise, dans une boutique de souvenirs ou sur une plage des Caraïbes couvertes de baigneurs blancs ? Qui n’a(...)
Manuel de l'antitourisme
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Le tourisme est la première industrie mondiale, même s’il est pratiqué par seulement 3,5 % de la population…Un luxe réservé aux occidentaux qui, depuis l’avènement des congés payés, ont intégré « un devoir d’ailleurs et de loisirs ». Mais qui n’a pas senti ce malaise, dans une boutique de souvenirs ou sur une plage des Caraïbes couvertes de baigneurs blancs ? Qui n’a jamais ramené de vacances le sentiment de l’absurde ? Aujourd’hui, même les mieux intentionnés des voyageurs contribuent malgré eux à la mondophagie touristique. Et rien ne semble pouvoir arrêter cette conquête démesurée des quatre coins du monde : ni la pollution qu’elle impose, ni la disparition des spécificités culturelles qu’elle vient niveler et encore moins la conscience de l’Autre qu’elle réduit à une relation marchande. Pouvons-nous nous évader du tourisme ? Rodolphe Christin nous invite à retrouver l’essence du voyage : préférer le chemin à la destination, et « disparaître » plutôt qu’apparaître partout.
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A walk through Paris
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Eric Hazan takes the reader on a walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, roughly following the meridian that divides Paris into east and west, and passing such familiar landmarks as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pompidou Centre, the Gare du Nord and Montmartre, as well as forgotten alleyways and arcades. Weaving historical anecdotes, geographical observations, and literary(...)
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Eric Hazan takes the reader on a walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, roughly following the meridian that divides Paris into east and west, and passing such familiar landmarks as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pompidou Centre, the Gare du Nord and Montmartre, as well as forgotten alleyways and arcades. Weaving historical anecdotes, geographical observations, and literary references, Hazan’s walk guides us through an unknown Paris. With the aid of maps, he delineates the most fascinating and forgotten parts of the city’s past and present. Planning and modernization have accelerated the erasure of its revolutionary history, yet through walking and observation, Hazan shows how we can regain our knowledge of the city of Robespierre, the Commune, Sartre, and the May ’68 uprising.
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Phantom islands
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From the famed Atlantis to the remote Rupes Nigra, islands have long held our fascination: they are locales isolated from ordinary life, lurking in unexplored corners of the globe and thus full of undisclosed mysteries. At times, however, our fascination with islands has bled into reality, as real maps bear the coordinates of fictional lands and travelogues tell tall(...)
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From the famed Atlantis to the remote Rupes Nigra, islands have long held our fascination: they are locales isolated from ordinary life, lurking in unexplored corners of the globe and thus full of undisclosed mysteries. At times, however, our fascination with islands has bled into reality, as real maps bear the coordinates of fictional lands and travelogues tell tall tales of their inhabitants, their natural wonders, or their treasures. In ''Phantom islands,'' Dirk Liesemer tells the stories of thirty of these fantastical islands. Beginning with their supposed discovery, he recreates their fabled landscapes, the voyages that attempted to verify their existence, and, ultimately, the moment when their existence was finally disproven. Spanning oceans and centuries, these curious tales are a chronicle of human lust for discovery and wealth.
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Antonin Artaud's journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinary—and apocalyptic—turning point in his life and career. After publishing the manifesto ''The New Revelations of Being'' about the 'catastrophic immediate-future,' Artaud abruptly left Paris for Ireland, remaining there for six weeks without money. Artaud was eventually arrested as an undesirable alien,(...)
Artaud 1937 Apocalypse: letters from Ireland
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Antonin Artaud's journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinary—and apocalyptic—turning point in his life and career. After publishing the manifesto ''The New Revelations of Being'' about the 'catastrophic immediate-future,' Artaud abruptly left Paris for Ireland, remaining there for six weeks without money. Artaud was eventually arrested as an undesirable alien, beaten by the police, and summarily deported back to France. On his return, he spent nine years in asylums, remaining there through the entire span of World War II. During his fateful journey, Artaud wrote letters to friends in Paris which included several 'magic spells,' intended to curse his enemies and protect his friends from the city's forthcoming incineration and the Antichrist's appearance. This book collects all of Artaud's surviving correspondence from his time in Ireland, as well as photographs of the locations he traveled through.
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From the ruins of Palmyra in the Syrian desert to the ghost town of Bodie, the painted churches of Sucevita in Romania, and a fire festival in a Japanese village, Michael Webb has ventured far afield in search of the rare and beautiful. He recalls memorable experiences of people and places over eight decades of travel around the world, and some of the buildings and(...)
Moving around: a lifetime of wandering
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From the ruins of Palmyra in the Syrian desert to the ghost town of Bodie, the painted churches of Sucevita in Romania, and a fire festival in a Japanese village, Michael Webb has ventured far afield in search of the rare and beautiful. He recalls memorable experiences of people and places over eight decades of travel around the world, and some of the buildings and landscapes that have left a lasting impression. It's getting harder to find places that have not been commercialized and overwhelmed by mass tourism, but they can still be found, even in the most popular destinations. Webb's recommendations should inspire you to get off the beaten track and make your own discoveries.
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La mer de l'intranquilité
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''La Mer de l'Intranquillité'' retrace la saga des treize dernières missions Apollo – moins de cent jours de vol cumulés qui changèrent la face du monde. Puisant auprès des 33 000 prises de vue de la NASA (la mission photographique la plus chère au monde), ce timelapse de quelques milliers d'heures et de près de 3 000 vues invite ici à la face cachée d'infinis voyages(...)
La mer de l'intranquilité
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''La Mer de l'Intranquillité'' retrace la saga des treize dernières missions Apollo – moins de cent jours de vol cumulés qui changèrent la face du monde. Puisant auprès des 33 000 prises de vue de la NASA (la mission photographique la plus chère au monde), ce timelapse de quelques milliers d'heures et de près de 3 000 vues invite ici à la face cachée d'infinis voyages intérieurs : dans l'effrayant silence du cosmos ou dans les plaines désertes du sol lunaire, dans la tête et les pulsations cardiaques de ces marcheurs perdus dans l'espace, mais aussi, pour les Terriens que nous sommes, dans l'expérience d'un indicible déloignement existentiel...
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De New York à Paris, de Tokyo à Londres en passant par Venise, l'auteure dresse le portrait de la flâneuse, une femme déterminée en phase avec le potentiel créatif de la ville dans laquelle elle déambule, à l'image de la réalisatrice Agnès Varda, la correspondante de guerre Martha Gellhorn ou les romancières George Sand et Virginia Woolf.
Flâneuse
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De New York à Paris, de Tokyo à Londres en passant par Venise, l'auteure dresse le portrait de la flâneuse, une femme déterminée en phase avec le potentiel créatif de la ville dans laquelle elle déambule, à l'image de la réalisatrice Agnès Varda, la correspondante de guerre Martha Gellhorn ou les romancières George Sand et Virginia Woolf.
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This work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundings- cities, countryside, and sprawl- exploring change in the meaning of place and reimagining the world in a time of transition. Whether it be climate change altering the meaning of nature, or digital communications altering the nature of work, the effects of global enclosure on the meaning of place are(...)
The absent hand: reimagining our American landscape
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This work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundings- cities, countryside, and sprawl- exploring change in the meaning of place and reimagining the world in a time of transition. Whether it be climate change altering the meaning of nature, or digital communications altering the nature of work, the effects of global enclosure on the meaning of place are panoramic, infiltrative, inescapable. In this exploration of our surroundings, ''The Absent Hand'' contends that to reimagine landscape is a form of cultural reinvention.
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The art of travel
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Few activities seem to promise as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel to, we seldom ask why we go and how we might become more fulfilled by doing so. With the help of a selection of writers,(...)
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Few activities seem to promise as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel to, we seldom ask why we go and how we might become more fulfilled by doing so. With the help of a selection of writers, artists and thinkers, Alain de Botton provides invaluable insights into everything from holiday romance to hotel minibars, airports to sightseeing. The perfect antidote to those guides that tell us what to do when we get there, this book tries to explain why we really went in the first place - and helpfully suggest how we might be happier on our journeys.
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