Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 23:44:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Calum Selkirk <cselkirk-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: Psychogeography (Was Dada



the London Assoc (no 'comittee' i know of) can be contacted at

LPA (ELS)
Box 15
138 Kingsland High St
London
E8 2NS
UK

On Tue, 14 Mar 1995, Kristine Stiles wrote:

> 
> 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?
> >    
> > 
> > __________________________________________________________________
> > -- Alastair Dickson             I  <alastair.dickson-AT-almac.co.uk>
> > -- Stirling, Scotland           I
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