International Derive - August 2012 - December 2012
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Derive Diary 2012
These "Derives'* are my own style of experiments in 'random journeying" ** my concern being with finding a balance to the segmentation of experience that can occur due to the forces of instrumental rationality.(ref blog) I am experimenting with and adapting a simple random selector method***as I learn from experience... My mode of transport is currently a mountain bike. On the 7th derive I found 3 wooden dice**** which I am now using to select direction and distance..
10http://maps.google.com/?q=http://share.abvio.com/5b86/b6ec/4efb/bcd7/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20120219-1128.kml
(By Foot - London)
11 http://share.abvio.com/5b86/b6ec/4efb/bcd7/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20120225-0946.kml
Notes
re 1-10
Although I thought I knew the local area pretty well I am regularly finding connections and throughways that connect areas of the city together i assumed were much father apart, this offers me different practical options for my 'normal' journeys and routes. (add example (Clough Field-Allotments - Map)
* Debord G(1956) Theory of the Dérive. Les Lèvres Nues #9 (Paris, November 1956). Reprinted in Internationale Situationniste #2 (Paris, December 1958). Translated by Ken Knabb.
** My method is currently driven by the exploration of the value of random journeying as a means of compensating for the segmentation/dualism that is arguably encouraged by our instrumental culture and ideology.
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Randomexplorers.info
Derive Diary 2012
These "Derives'* are my own style of experiments in 'random journeying" ** my concern being with finding a balance to the segmentation of experience that can occur due to the forces of instrumental rationality.(ref blog) I am experimenting with and adapting a simple random selector method***as I learn from experience... My mode of transport is currently a mountain bike. On the 7th derive I found 3 wooden dice**** which I am now using to select direction and distance..
10http://maps.google.com/?q=http://share.abvio.com/5b86/b6ec/4efb/bcd7/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20120219-1128.kml
(By Foot - London)
11 http://share.abvio.com/5b86/b6ec/4efb/bcd7/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20120225-0946.kml
12 http://share.abvio.com/5b86/b6ec/4efb/bcd7/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20120226-1606.kml
(Cycle Sheffield )
14 http://g.co/maps/q5j8a
15 http://share.abvio.com/5b86/b6ec/4efb/bcd7/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20120525-1445.kml
(Cycle Sheffield )
14 http://g.co/maps/q5j8a
15 http://share.abvio.com/5b86/b6ec/4efb/bcd7/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20120525-1445.kml
Notes
re 1-10
Although I thought I knew the local area pretty well I am regularly finding connections and throughways that connect areas of the city together i assumed were much father apart, this offers me different practical options for my 'normal' journeys and routes. (add example (Clough Field-Allotments - Map)
* Debord G(1956) Theory of the Dérive. Les Lèvres Nues #9 (Paris, November 1956). Reprinted in Internationale Situationniste #2 (Paris, December 1958). Translated by Ken Knabb.
** My method is currently driven by the exploration of the value of random journeying as a means of compensating for the segmentation/dualism that is arguably encouraged by our instrumental culture and ideology.
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c.f Defn Surrealism: "pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express the realproces of thought, free from any control by reason and of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation" Breton