Psychogeography at socialfiction.org

Found this quote today:

In short, psychogeography is the study of how physical environments and settings directly effect the mood and behavior of individuals. Like most post-modern theories and Situationist-derived practices it was mildly interesting. Unfortunately, in most cases, psychogeography resembles the majority of modern cultural and literary theories. The persons discussing it are usually far more interested in proving their own cultural capital via an obtuse vocabulary and over-inflated sense of place, presence, ego, and impact. Basic truth is that if you’re not Umberto Eco you’ll never be able to write like him. Or be as smart as him. So why try and pretend that you are?

Wasn't Kramer talking about the situationists recently?

Anyway, the article being quoted talks about psychobibliography, which is probably what inspires anyone to become a librarian. Everyone I know has experienced a 'library sojourn' at one point or another. One of my first was probably discovering a bunch of early 20th century art periodicals in compact shelving at my university library. It appeared that I was the first person in years to open them--although at least 100 classmates were hearing this publication mentioned day after day.

You probably don't even have to have become a librarian to have had this experience. As the author of the above says: it's a lot like surfing the web.