"Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom." - Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution Of Everyday Life
Kevin Linnane's comments on my Impressionist-inspired-art-piece blog (see link to the right) included the observation that some of what I was saying was similar to what the Situationists of the 1960s were saying. I have always thought of myself as a poorly disguised political and artistic agitator.
He also mentioned the Dérive: In philosophy, a Dérive is a French concept meaning an aimless walk, probably through city streets, that follows the whim of the moment. It is sometimes translated as a drift. (From wikipedia.)
The Dérive was a radical offshoot of the flaneur - the dandyish stroller of mid to late 19th century Paris. The Dérive was inspired by psychogeography: "a slightly stuffy term that's been applied to a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities. Psychogeography includes just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape." (Again, from wikipedia.)
Such as: http://timdevin.com/providence.html
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