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=**Mind-Mapping the Psychogeographic Me: The exploits of a failed //flâneur//** =

//As with every semester, I started this one with high hopes and great expectations. Like a tabula rasa, each semester is a fresh start with endless possibilities. I think to myself “this could be the semester that I say, do or write something magnificent. But alas, poor Yorick, yet another seemingly brilliant idea turns out be more stale than stellar. My attempt to "walk" my rural college campus was fraught with frustration and futility. This may be due to the fact I feel stranded and isolated at the junction of Hee Haw and the Twilight Zone. So that all is not lost I decided to continue my psychogeographic adventures from a Situationist perspective on my location compared to those mentioned in the books I read this semester - writtenby the literary rock stars of the genre. We shall begin our literary escapade with Bruce Chatwin’s, The Songlines and explore the ideas of nomadism and wanderlust. Below is a link to MediaFire, the free cloud computing site where I have my PowerPoint Presentation uploaded for sharing. When you view the PowerPoint it looks best in slide mode - click on the little icon at the bottom right hand of page that looks like a spot-light. Please join me in a digital journal with Bruce Chatwin in The Songlines.//

[|http://www.mediafire.com/view/?j9f9211r9z593kw]

//The Songlines// is generally considered Bruce Chatwin’s masterpiece, even though its form is difficult to categorize. It certainly is an adventure story, but it is also a novel of ideas; it combines, although to a lesser extent than //In Patagonia//, many of the identical literary, historical, and philosophical techniques, such as anecdote, biography, autobiography, anthropological case study, and other similar methods of inquiry. The book includes a previously unpublished anthropological study called “The Nomadic Alternative”.

Dustjacket synopsis: //'I have a vision of the Songlines stretching across the continents and ages; that wherever men have trodden they have left a trail of song; and that these trails must reach back, in time and space, to an isolated pocket in the African savannah, where the First Man shouted the opening stanza to the World Song, "I am!"'.//

=ایده های من мои идеи 我的想法 saya ide Fikirlerimi  私のアイデア le mie idee mis idea s  רעיונותשלי mes idées   meine Ideen بيالأفكار = = =


 * // I am fairly sure that I am genetically predisposed to possess, what can seem like a curse, especially to the child of a single Mother (the gene is known to skip a generation or two), wanderlust syndrome. It may seem like a mutation to some, as women are supposed to be "nesters", and men hunter gatherer's. A more modern rendition would be that "women are storers" // . "The Storylines" // resonated with me on many levels, the greatest of which is my attraction to roaming. I think those of us who thrive on change take advantage of more opportunities in general. Yes, we a plagued with a cosmic attraction to trouble, but, that is because we are willing to take more risks! //**

January 26th: Coverley

February 2nd: Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

February 9th: Ballard, Concrete Island

February 16th: Bachelard, pp.3-73

February 23rd: Amis, London Fields

March 1st: Kees: “The City as Hero,” “Robinson,” “Aspects of Robinson,” “Robinson at Home,” “Relating to Robinson”

March 8th: Keiller, London (film)

March 22nd: Coverley, pp.111-139

April 5th: Sinclair, London Orbital

April 12th: John Rogers, The London Perambulator (film)

April 19th: Self, Walking to Hollywood