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Mădălina Diaconu Urban drifting as a work methode of the creative class ESA Conference 2010 Udine
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Urban drifting as a work methode of the creative class. M ă d ă lina Diaconu. ESA Conference 2010 Udine. M ădălina Diaconu – Urban drifting. “Les fleuves m’ont laissé descendre où je voulais.” (Rimbaud) “Allez-vous faire influencer.” (Gil J Wolman). ESA Conference 2010 Udine. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Mădălina Diaconu
Urban driftingas a work methode of the creative class
ESA Conference 2010 Udine
Mădălina Diaconu – Urban drifting
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“Les fleuves m’ont laissé descendre où je voulais.” (Rimbaud)
“Allez-vous faire influencer.” (Gil J Wolman)
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What is drifting?
Dérive (Debord):1.drain off water (12th century)2.leave the shore (rive) (14th century)3.(nautic) to drift (16th century)
Drifting as: • physical locomotion (strolling)• work method of the creative class • way of life
Paradoxical project of steering casualness
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The flâneur: empathy at distance(Walter Benjamin)
Conversion of historic knowledge into emotional knowledge
Emotional intensity and reflexive distance
Ivresse (Baudelaire, Benjamin) & Blasiertheit (Simmel)
Otium and negotium: the flâneur‘s productive „idleness“; trendscouter and agent on the market of ideas.
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The social reporter: hostage of impressions (Siegfried Kracauer)
Primacy of emotions → loss of self-control → no methodical drifting
I wanted to cross speedily the short distance which was separating me from the thoroughfare. But it suddenly happened: No sooner had I detached myself from the white, exaggerated high theatre wall than I felt it hard to go further, as if invisible nets would have held me back. The street where I was did not let me free.
Ethical flâneur: city of poverty, violence,indifference
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Constructing situations(Situationism)
Guy Debord, Gil J Wolman, Isidore Isou, Asger Jorn etc.
New means of action – programme of social change
Reaction to the crisis of modern culture, functionalism and consumerism
Creation of playful environments
Techniques of conditioning moods
Dérive: „a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances“, „the practice of a passional journey out of the ordinary through a rapid changing of ambiances”
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Constructing situations(Situationism)
Alternative to Kevin Lynch’s “image of the city” (legibility, orientation, identification)
Object of psychogeography:
„[…] exact laws and specific effects of geographical environments, whether consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals“
Ephemeral situations: passages
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The stroller’s freedom
Contemporary commodification of feelings
(Post)modern aestheticism and the flâneur‘s ethics
Social and economic conditions of the flânerie
The fitness of the consumer‘s body (Bauman)
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Hobo and urban research(Robert E. Park)
The urban sociologist asa „tramper through cities“
The Hobo‘s Mind (1915):• existential homelessness• artistic temperament: hobo poets
„[…] for the hobo is the bohemian in the rank of common labor.“
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The Tramp’s improvisations(Charlie Chaplin)
From existential drifting to creative improvisation as a way of life
Parody of the flâneur and dandy
Social mimicry
Passion for individual freedom vs. solidarity
Drifting as narrative technique
The situationists‘ critique: „swindler of feelings and suffering“
The Circus (1928)
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Univ.-Doz. DDr. Mădălina DiaconuInstitut für Philosophie der Universität [email protected]://homepage.univie.ac.at/madalina.diaconu
