Drifting Through Empire: From The Situationists To Big Tech and The Dérive
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From the Situationists to Big Tech and the Dérive
Babak Fakhamzadeh · [Link] · @MastaBaba
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Walking reveals what maps
hide
To understand why walking matters, we drift back to the 1950s…
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Artists! radicals! wanderers!
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“Let yourself be drawn by
the attractions of the
terrain.”
- Guy Debord
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The spectacle colonises the
city
But the spectacle didn’t stop there…
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From billboards to
algorithms
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Big Tech as the new planner
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Your data as the new
resource
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Colonialism as capitalism’s
irst OS
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The empire didn’t die: It went
online
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Walking is thinking with your
feet
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Re-enchanting the everyday
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A tool for drifting in a world
that wants you to scroll
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Reclaim presence, attention,
and space
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Your dérive starts here
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To drift is to resist
To resist is to reimagine
To reimagine is to reclaim
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Let’s wander!
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