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In Girum Revisited: From Guy Debord’s dérive to the Situationist View of History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2020

Xavier Costa
Xavier Costa*
Affiliation:
School of Architecture, 151 Ryder Hall, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA02115, USA. Email: xcostag@gmail.com
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Abstract

This article presents the concept of contemporary mobility in relation to the writings and actions of the Situationist group, particularly in Guy Debord’s concepts of urban dérive and psychogeography, as reflected in his last film In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978). Connecting different disciplines, the paper examines the concept of mobility in its relation to history, philosophy, art and urbanism.

Type
Focus: Mobility – A Bridge Between the Past and the Present
Information
European Review , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , February 2021 , pp. 78 - 82
Copyright
© 2020 Academia Europaea

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