Greil Marcus definitions of derive and detournement are among the best and most

succinct I have seen: Detournement (literally diversion, with connotations of

criminality and delinuency! meant the theft of aesthetic artifacts from the "ld #orld and
their revitali$ation in conte%ts of ones own devising&'he derive (literally, drift in the
nautical sense! was a matter of o(ening ones consciousness to the (so to s(ea)!
unconsciousness of urban s(ace* the derive meant a solo or collective (assage down city
streets, a surrender to and then (ursuits of alleys of attraction, boulevards of re(ulsion,
until the city itself became a field of what the +I called (sychogeogra(hy,, where every
building, route, and decoration e%(anded with meaning or disa((eared for the lac) of
it&, ((- ./0!-