Wanderings in Psychogeography: Exploring Landscapes of History, Biography, Memory, Culture, Nature, Poetry, Surreality, Fantasy, and Madness

An opening to a dark arched passage leading to a sunlit space, with a silhouetted human figure.

No space is neutral in its relation to the mind, though the mental and emotional effects of spaces may be difficult to elucidate. (Photo courtesy of Neil Hester on Flickr. License CC BY-NC.)

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MIT Course Number

11.S942

As Taught In

Fall 2020

Level

Graduate

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In this seminar we explore the history, present, and future of psychogeography, hoping to map the center and the edges of this elusive field and to pioneer potential new directions and applications for the principles we discover (or invent) along the way. We discuss classic and more recent texts—including novels, essays, poems, reviews, films, and other works of creative nonfiction and speculative fiction. Students also undertake their own psychogeographic wanderings and complete a final “carto-imagino-synthetic” project to document, describe, map, and otherwise “make sense of place” through these techniques.

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Ezra Glenn. 11.S942 Wanderings in Psychogeography: Exploring Landscapes of History, Biography, Memory, Culture, Nature, Poetry, Surreality, Fantasy, and Madness. Fall 2020. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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