Situationist' Pokemon Go
Situationist's (SI) movement was a relatively small avant-gard political Paris-based group of people who were very much concerned with environmental segregation and discontinuation in cities. The SI’s influence in the United States is most noticeable in the anarchist milieu.
They were very radical about city perception, dérive. Situationist pioneer Guy Debord’s description of dérive:
"In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there. Chance is a less important factor in this activity than one might think: from a dérive point of view cities have psychogeographical contours, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes that strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones."
Debord's Spectacle is vaguely described as images. It can be both a television show or a painting which acts a mechanism for holding in place capitalist social relations in society. He set the discussion about discontinuity and image, the role of city self-representation. He wrote ‘of those societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. All that once has become mere representation.’ Fragmentation of pictures.
Today with Augmented techniques we have ability to reunite everyday picture. To get out of our houses on the dérive to explose city conditions, changes, new parallaxes, psychogeographical contours, be flaneurs of the present.
All fixed points are in our pocket, on the map, we just need to reconnect, be more active participators of accumulative spectators
They were very radical about city perception, dérive. Situationist pioneer Guy Debord’s description of dérive:
"In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there. Chance is a less important factor in this activity than one might think: from a dérive point of view cities have psychogeographical contours, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes that strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones."
Debord's Spectacle is vaguely described as images. It can be both a television show or a painting which acts a mechanism for holding in place capitalist social relations in society. He set the discussion about discontinuity and image, the role of city self-representation. He wrote ‘of those societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. All that once has become mere representation.’ Fragmentation of pictures.
Today with Augmented techniques we have ability to reunite everyday picture. To get out of our houses on the dérive to explose city conditions, changes, new parallaxes, psychogeographical contours, be flaneurs of the present.
All fixed points are in our pocket, on the map, we just need to reconnect, be more active participators of accumulative spectators
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