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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 16:49:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Kristine Stiles <awe-AT-acpub.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: Psychogeography (Was Dada



I've never heard of the London Psychogeographical Comittee.  Will someone 
help me out with this in terms of a reading list and/description/and 
address to get in touch with these people?  Any names associated with it?

Also, where are these psychogeographical associations that have been 
mushrooming?  Again, any names?  publications?  addresses?

 Thanks,

Kristine Stiles

On Mon, 13 Mar 1995, ALASTAIR DICKSON wrote:

> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 95 22:25:00 +0100
> From: ALASTAIR DICKSON <alastair.dickson-AT-almac.co.uk>
> To: avant-garde-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
> Subject: Psychogeography (Was Dada
> 
> 
> On Sun, 12 Mar 1995 23:23:19 Whit Blauvelt <whitfb-AT-amanda.dorsai.org>
> queried:
> 
> WB>Brooklyn Psychogeographical Association?
> 
> Maybe David Mandl could say something about the BPA?
> 
> The Psychogeographical Associations have been mushrooming over the past
> couple of years after 30 odd years underground.
> 
> They echo the London Psychogeographical Committee, which was one of the
> supposed constituent groups forming the Situationist International.  By
> repute, the others at the conference told Ralph Rumney that he had to be a
> group, so he instantaneously became the LPC.  And ever since,
> organisational historians have been solemnly writing about the LPC merging
> with the Lettrist International and Imaginist Bauhaus to form the SI.
> 
> Anyway, over the past couple of years, the reformed London
> Psychogeographical Association have been putting forward a strange
> para-scientific, para-political blend.  Maybe this just results from a
> particular political stream having dried up, perhaps it's a new form for
> avoiding rationalised politicking.  I'm presuming that the Brooklyn
> association is similar - perhaps it isn't - but maybe David could say more?
>    
> 
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