Beyond Walking: British Psychogeography and the Art of Everyday Life, 1960s to Present

超越步行：英国心理地理学和日常生活艺术，20 世纪 60 年代至今

• 批准号: 2734887
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Aberystwyth University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2734887
• 关键词: Beyond; Walking; British; Psychogeography; Art

Psychogeography' is currently a contentious term. Radio 4 calls it 'cool', radical bookshops devote it whole sections, it features prominently in university modules as well as popular and scholarly articles. Although overwhelmingly likely to connote Will Self and Iain Sinclair's old-boy's-club rambling contemporary creative non-fiction, Tina Richardson argues 'there are no rules to doing psychogeography' and 'anyone can do it' (Richardson, 2015: 1). By contrast, originally defined by the Situationist International (SI) in late-1950s Paris as 'the study of the specific effects of the geographical environment (whether consciously organised or not) on the emotions and behaviour of individuals' (Debord, 2006: 39), psychogeography began as a highly specific avant-garde aesthetic and political practice - today, it has been appropriated and banalised by postmodern culture. My project both traces this process and recovers a more radical tradition persisting in British psychogeography into the c21st, beyond the Sinclair-Self 'walking-writing' paradigm. Disciplines unite to challenge British psychogeography's presently-anodyne status, but few studies examine its post-1960s manifestations as a rich 'late modernist literary project' (Cooper, 2017: 9) rooted in urgent interrogation of 'everyday life' (Sheringham, 2006: 158-174). Using literary-historicist methodologies - and drawing on critical theory's spatial, spectral, neurological, magical turns over the last half-century - I reattend to psychogeography's radical potential to interpret and transform structures of everyday life. This is important at a moment when Situationist interest resurges and psychogeographical arts enter new public spaces. My project will demonstrate wide-ranging avant-garde/mainstream psychogeographically-influenced political aesthetic production in late-c20th/21st Britain within wider discourse on the everyday, beyond the limited attention to creative non-fiction initiating my inquiry.

“心理地理学”目前是一个有争议的术语。第四广播电台称其为“酷”，激进的书店将其整个版块投入其中，它在大学模块以及流行和学术文章中占据显着位置。尽管极有可能暗示威尔·塞尔夫和伊恩·辛克莱的老男孩俱乐部漫无目的当代创意非小说，蒂娜·理查森认为“做心理地理学没有规则”并且“任何人都可以做到”（理查森，2015：1）。相比之下，心理地理学最初被 20 世纪 50 年代末的巴黎情景主义国际组织 (SI) 定义为“研究地理环境（无论是否有意识地组织）对个人情感和行为的具体影响”（Debord，2006：39），心理地理学最初是一种高度具体的前卫美学和政治实践——如今，它已被后现代文化所挪用和平庸。我的项目既追踪了这一过程，又恢复了二十一世纪英国心理地理学中持续存在的更激进的传统，超越了辛克莱-塞尔夫的“行走-写作”范式。各学科联合起来挑战英国心理地理学目前平淡无奇的地位，但很少有研究将其 20 世纪 60 年代后的表现视为一个丰富的“晚期现代主义文学项目”（Cooper，2017：9），植根于对“日常生活”的紧急审问（Sheringham，2006：158-174）。使用文学历史主义方法论——并利用批评理论在过去半个世纪的空间、光谱、神经学、魔幻转变——我重新关注心理地理学解释和改变日常生活结构的根本潜力。在情境主义兴趣重新兴起和心理地理学艺术进入新的公共空间的时刻，这一点非常重要。我的项目将在更广泛的日常话语中展示 20 世纪末/21 世纪英国广泛的前卫/主流受心理地理学影响的政治美学生产，超越我对引发我的探究的创造性非小说类作品的有限关注。