Questions Re: Debord’s Two Accounts of the Derive
Some things to think about before today’s discussion:
a) What, in your opinion, are some of the salient points of contact and divergence between each of Debord’s accounts of the derive?
b) What sort of differentiations might we elaborate from an experience of derive in a particular geographical location circa 1957 and a derive through that location today? Ultimately, what sort of cultural impressions, whether similar or divergent, might we extract from each experience? More importantly, how do we identify the ways in which space articulates culture in this context?
c) If we conceive of ‘psychogeography’ as an act of the imagination, to what extent does the image repertoire of the individual imbue the physical and/or imaginary construction of space? To what extent is there imbrication between the two?