Psychogeographical publications from the future: Six

The date given for the publication #4 of 'Transgressions, a journal of urban exploration' is spring 1998 and this probably means that I purchased it a year later at Camden's Compendium bookstore when I was in London for the 10 Days in Space festival organized by the Association of Autonomous Astronauts. This magazine ticks all the boxes of that time: magico-marxism (!, where has it gone), primitivism, the AAA, Luther Blissett, Stewart Home when he could still be taken serious, The LPA's Fabian Tompsett, Angry Brigade's John Barker reviewing Tom Vague's book on the AB, psychogeo field reports, Asger Jorn and rock art. What more could you possible want? This was psychogeography as it was before 2000: exclusively used and understood in activist/anarchist/left-wing Marxist terms. This is not by definition a good thing because the overall tone is one of sectarian self-righteousness gift wrapped in academically sanctified forms. 

Sometimes I check ebay to see if any of the other 4 issues are for sale, but nobody wants to flog them. 

Post part of a series of psycho-nostalgix

Psychogeographical publications from the future: Five

Three more newsletters from the London Psychogeographical Association, issues 10, 19, 21. Click to enlarge.

Psychogeographical publications from the future: FOUR

The First Congress of the New Lettrist International was an organization with unknown outcome instigated the LPA and the Neoist Alliance (read: Stewart Home). The name and the texts play a game with a variety of references to obscure events in communist history and unravelling them will earn you a PhD. Tongue-in-cheek neo(ist)-communist backbiting with a dash of white goddessism. Also included in this post is an issue of Re:Action the newsletter of the Neoist Alignment (the alignment of Home with all his imaginary friends).

 

Psychogeographical publications from the future: THREE

The London Psychogeographical Association was 'founded' by Ralph Rumney in 1957 but the incarnation that made a name for itself was hosted by Fabian Thompsett with or without the support of Stewart Home in the mid-nineties. The LPA's newsletters (below are issues 12, 16 and 18, click to enlarge) combine hermetic occult readings of the (political) landscape with slightly ridiculous contrived calls for a proletarian uprising. Truly unique.

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Psychogeographical publications from the future: TWO

There must be many other leaflets from EvoL PsychogeogrAphix / Qubit City Fuck Club somewhere in what other people would call and organize as an archive. Their style was aggressive, but also funny and inventive, and also, with the emphasis on magic and the occult, in the line of the London Psychogeographical Association. I wonder what happened to Mr. A. Butt. It was in 2004 or 2005 that I took the live shots of him defacing the statue at Soho Square at the bottom.

Psychogeographical publications from the future: ONE

For years the Nottingham Psychogeographical Association had a website documenting a mental map project with schoolchildren. It seems to have gone which is a real shame (& if anybody has a copy of the site, I'd happy to republish it). Between my things I found a special reprint edition of their newsletter. Click to enlarge.