Psychogeographies of the Present
<p>This issue of <i>Making & Breaking</i> seeks to map out some of the dominant psychogeographies of the present. Reworking the Situationist heritage and applying it to our time, many of the approaches presented within it extend beyond the city and the physical environment, going into the virtual dimensions of digital socialities, social media infrastructures and their affects, exploring shifting sociopolitical grounds and socio-economic factors, identifying new forces of power and potential sources of emancipation.</p> <p>At a time when it has become intellectually fashionable to celebrate the looming apocalypse as post- or transhuman payback, we urgently need to reinvigorate our desire for the future. Our inkling is that approaching cultural production in psychogeographic terms might help identify what blockages are at play in constraining it to addressing what feels like only a handful of topics, in a handful of ways.</p>
Editors: Sebastian Olma, Jess Henderson
Contributors: Sebastian Olma, Jess Henderson, Letizia Chiappini, Max Haiven, Liam Young, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Selena Savić, Gordan Savičić, Dan McQuillan, Image Acts, Aylin Kuryel, Fırat Yücel, Experimental Jetset, Total Refusal, Tristam Adams
Designers: Jess Henderson, Leaky Studio
Part of: Making & Breaking