tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post116386959167180401..comments2024-03-16T16:12:13.296+00:00Comments on some LANDSCAPES: Brighton in stitchesPliniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06529481330530614513noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-80703650006191783642006-12-24T11:53:00.000+00:002006-12-24T11:53:00.000+00:00I enjoyed it but thought that there was also a sin...I enjoyed it but thought that there was also a sinister angle. In our over-surveilled society, I am not sure that I want someone knowing and recording my movements.snarlersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117760284163716428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-66486728174338674652006-12-09T21:45:00.000+00:002006-12-09T21:45:00.000+00:00Having visited the exhibition today (9 December) I...Having visited the exhibition today (9 December) I am afraid your predicted map is taking shape with a very heavy concentration of stitching in the central core of the city. There are a few threads going directly south into the sea but apparently this is caused by a failure of the mobile phones rather than visitors' desires to head straight for France!aureliarayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10073105505110178711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-1163957716735853532006-11-19T17:35:00.000+00:002006-11-19T17:35:00.000+00:00"FORMULARY FOR A NEW URBANISM"(first translation o..."FORMULARY FOR A NEW URBANISM"<BR/>(first translation of the complete text by Ivan Chtcheglov)<BR/> http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/Chtcheglov.htm<BR/><BR/>"But can I ever forget the one whom I see everywhere in the greatest moment<BR/>of our adventures -- he who in those uncertain days opened up a new path and<BR/>forged ahead so rapidly, choosing those who would accompany him? No one else<BR/>was his equal that year. It might almost have been said that he transformed<BR/>cities and life merely by looking at them. In a single year he discovered<BR/>enough material for a century of demands; the depths and mysteries of urban<BR/>space were his conquest. The powers that be, with their pitiful falsified<BR/>information that misleads them almost as much as it bewilders those under<BR/>their administration, have not yet realized just how much the rapid passage<BR/>of this man has cost them" (Guy Debord).<BR/><BR/>Debord is recalling Ivan Chtcheglov, with whom he made many of his<BR/>pioneering "psychogeographical" explorations and experiments in the early<BR/>1950s. Until now Chtcheglov has remained an obscure and mysterious figure,<BR/>known only for a single abridged text ("Formularly for a New Urbanism"), a<BR/>few letters written from the mental hospital where he spent most of the<BR/>later part of his life, and a few intriguing reminiscences by Debord and his<BR/>contemporaries. Editions Allia has just published a biographical study by<BR/>Jean-Marie Apostolidès and Boris Donné, "Ivan Chtcheglov, profil perdu",<BR/>along with a slim volume of Chtcheglov's "Écrits retrouvés" that includes<BR/>the first publication of the complete "Formulary". This complete version has<BR/>been translated by Ken Knabb at http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/Chtcheglov.htm<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>* * *<BR/><BR/>Texts of related interest at the same website:<BR/><BR/>"Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography" (Debord)<BR/>http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/urbgeog.htm<BR/><BR/>"Proposals for Rationally Improving the City of Paris"<BR/>(Lettrist International)<BR/>http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/paris.htm<BR/><BR/>"Theory of the Dérive" (Debord)<BR/>http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/2.derive.htm<BR/><BR/>"Situationist Theses on Traffic" (Debord)<BR/>http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/3.traffic.htm<BR/><BR/>"Another City for Another Life" (Constant)<BR/>http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/3.constant.htm<BR/><BR/>"Elementary Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism" (Kotanyi & Vaneigem)<BR/>http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/6.unitaryurb.htm<BR/><BR/>"Territorial Domination"<BR/>(chapter of Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle")<BR/>http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/7.htm<BR/><BR/>"In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni"<BR/>(Debord film featuring a eulogy to Chtcheglov)<BR/>http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/ingirum.htm<BR/><BR/>"Banning Cars from Manhattan" (Paul & Percival Goodman)<BR/>http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/goodman-cars.htm<BR/><BR/>"Urbanism and Community Planning" (Kenneth Rexroth)<BR/>http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/urbanism.htm<BR/><BR/>"The Blossoming of Free Communities"<BR/>(section of Ken Knabb's "The Joy of Revolution")<BR/>http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/joyrev4.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com