[Reader-list] [Announcements] Call for Entries for Drain- A journal on psychogeography.

[Mitoo Das]

Call for Entries for /Drain/- A journal on psychogeography.

In 1955, Guy Debord described psychogeography as "the study of the 
specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized 
or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals." Debord's 
psychogeographical map The Naked City (1957) challenged traditional 
ideas of mapping relating to scale, location, and fixity, and drew on 
the work of urban social geographer Paul-Henri Chombart de Lauwe's 
concept of the city as a conglomeration of distinct quarters, each with 
its own special function, class divisions, and "physiognomy," which 
linked the idea of the urban plan to the body. An important strategy of 
the pyschogeographical was the dérive, "a technique of transient passage 
through varied ambiences". 

The 'psychogeographical' has had a pervasive if somewhat amorphous role 
in contemporary art and culture. As a creative, social and political 
tactic, wandering through psychogeographic spaces is pertinent to a 
diverse range of practices including the use of GPS systems, Internet 
art, photography as well as sound and performance art.

This issue of Drain attempts to gather a series of essays, artworks and 
creative writings that reflect on the current state of psychogeography. 
How have contemporary artists, writers and thinkers interpreted, or been 
influenced by, the legacy of psychogeography? 

Abstract deadline: April 1, 2008
Submission deadline: June 1, 2008
Launch: August 1, 2008

Please send submissions to: celina at drainmag.com <mailto:Celina at drainmag.com>
and avantika at drainmag.com

Celina
Managerial Board/Editor
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