num_pages: 256
description: For those interested in the connection between people and place the best of the decade long collaboration between literary brat packer Will Self and gonzo illustrator Ralph Steadman.Opening with a dazzling new 20000-word essay on walking from London to New York Psychogeography is a collection of 50 short pieces written over the last four years together with 50 four-color illustrations by Ralph Steadman. In Psychogeography Self and Steadman explore the relationship between psyche and place in the contemporary world. Self thinks most people have a wind-screen-based virtuality on long- and short-distance travel. We drive take buses and trains fly. To combat this compromised reality Will Self walks relating intimately to place as pedestrians do. Ranging in subject from swimming the Ganges to motorcycling across the Australian outback shopping in an Iowa mall to surfing a tsunami Psychogeography is at once a map of our world and the psychoanalysis of the way we inhabit it. The pieces are serious humorous facetious and rambunctious. Psychogeography the study of the effects of geographical environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals has captivated other writers including W. G. Sebald and Peter Ackroyd but Self and Steadman have their own unique spin on how place shapes people and vice versa.
language: English
title: Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place
publisher: Bloomsbury USA