Dérive et dérivation. Le parcours urbain contemporain, poursuite des écrits situationnistes ?

• Main Authors: Yves Bonard, Vincent Capt
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Journal of Urban Research 2009-10-01
• Series: Articulo: Journal of Urban Research
• Subjects: Corajoud; Situationnists; drift / derivation; proximity guide; urban individual
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/articulo/1111

This research is interested in forms of speech as they characterize a given spatial practice. It is based on a group of texts writtent by Pierre Corajoud, author of multiple proximity tourist guides. Corajoud invites readers to move beyond the « beaten track » by means of wandering, a method akin to drift as conceived of by Situationists. In both cases, we are confronted to speeches concerning pedestrian walk in urban areas, and more specifically to a proposal about ways of walking through the city which question the relationship between subject and urban space. However, each “method“ is characterized by a distinct modality: if, to Situationists, the individual is directed by space and knowingly drifts, the Corajoud walker-reader “method“ is closer to what we name derivation.