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TOPOAESTHESIS AND PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIC FLOW
In Michel de Certeau's essay Walking in the City, there is an opening description of the view from 110th floor of the World Trade Centre...


Ekphrasis, Sense of Place and Topophilia = Topoaesthesis
I'm trying to get my head round the critical side of this thesis, interspersing that with writing the novel. After a walk down the canal,...


Best-laid Plans...
Les Murray said this, about writing his verse novel, Fredy Neptune: A Novel In Verse: 'I never let myself plan his course, but worked...
Black Country Farms
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2016/05/10/stolen-sheep-rescued-as-ewe-sual-suspect-found-hiding-up-a-tree/ and...


Richard Long: A Line Made By Walking
I watched a documentary on BBC4 - no idea what it was called but it was about art. In truth, I watched it becau se there wasn't anything...
Tramp, consciousness and the narrative arc
'.....But ultimately, the flâneuse is journeying not just through the streets of the city, but through an exploration of her own human...


Flow
I'm back in the game (a bit) now. Back walking, I mean, and thinking, so that I can get back to writing. Dogs are good for making you do...
Black Country Lad
I've been absent from this site, and from writing anything at all since before Christmas as my Dad died and I've been 'making the...
Drift
Last week, I met artist, Julie O'Neill, and we talked about psychogeography, and artists like Hamish Fulton and Gregor Schneider. These...
A Gifting from Baudelaire
I've been wandering. Formulating, I like to call it. I've read the latest literature on psychogeography (namely, Richardson) and literary...
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