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Friday, Sep 5th 2008


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Dublin Psychogeographical Society: Report #3

Being the third and final part of a dérive through Dublin with a map of Paris.

Place Pigalle: Vibrant, albeit a little rundown, Pigalle tends to attract large groups of Americans, and, as a result, there is a great deal of anti-American feeling among the residents and artists. Much of the artwork was, frankly, disappointing: Most […]

Dublin Psychogeographical Society: Report #2

Being the second part of a dérive through Dublin with a map of Paris.

Rue Gay Lussac: “Marxism is the opiate of the intellectuals.” “All Power to the Dromedariat!” “Under the Paving Stones, the Metro!” These are just a few of the slogans that adorned the walls of Paris during The Events of 1968. They were […]

Dublin Psychogeographical Society Report #1

The first event in the calendar of the Dublin Psychogeographical Society took place last Friday, a challenging, insightful, and fun day out for all concerned. I met at the Omphalos of Irish society, Holles Street hospital, at 11 a.m., armed only with a Tupperware box filled with tuna sandwiches, a hip flask of Black Bush […]

Book Review: Black Books

If, like me, you have read Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Truth and Method, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Phenomenology of Perception, and Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology and Dissemination from cover to cover, and all just out of curiosity, then I think it’s fair to say that 1: You’re a div, 2: You’re a div […]

Book Review: David Graeber’s Possibilities

I’ve been promising/threatening to provide a review of David Graeber’s new book, Possibilities, for a few weeks, but a number of factors intervened to postpone it. First, a bunch of books arrived on my doorstep that demanded attention, not least because they touched on some of the issues dealt with in the Graeber […]

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