Delirious Paris: Mapping as a paranoiac-critical activity

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Volumn , Issue 19, 2005, Pages 7-21

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EID: 67149089346     PISSN: 15263819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/grey.2005.1.19.6     Document Type: Review

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1. As described in the Parisian daily Libération. For an account of the making of this work, see Hélène Hazera, "Les dernières projections de Guy Debord," Libération, 9 January 1995, 34
2. Reviews included Olivier Seguret, "Un film antitélé visuel," Libération, 9 January 1995, 34
3. and Jean-Louis Perrier, "Le spectacle anéanti par lui-même," Le Monde, 9 January 1995, 2
4. To paraphrase the title of Louis Chevalier's 1977 book on the progress of urban "renewal" in this city, a book deeply appreciated by Debord, see Louis Chevalier, The Assassination of Paris, trans. David P. Jordan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994). Debord's former publishing house, Éditions Ivrea, would reissue Chevalier's text in 1997
5. Guy Debord, "In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni" (1978), in Complete Cinematic Works, ed. and trans. Ken Knabb (Oakland: AK Press, 2003), 155-156; trans. modified
6. For a basic introduction to this topic, see Denis Wood, The Power of Maps (New York: Guilford Press, 1992), which has the advantage of having been written by a professional geographer
7. "Editorial Notes: Critique of Urbanism" (1961), trans. John Shepley, in Guy Debord and the Situationist International, ed. Tom McDonough (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002), 112; trans. modified
8. For a brief synthesis of this history, see John Ardagh, The New French Revolution (New York: Harper & Row, 1968). Mourenx, located approximately fifteen miles west of Pau in the Pyrenees, was the subject of research at this time by Henri Lefebvre
9. See Kristin Ross, "Lefebvre on the Situationists: An Interview," in Guy Debord and the Situationist International, ed. McDonough, 276-277
10. Guy Debord, Panegyric (1989), trans. James Brook (London: Verso, 1991), 6
11. Gilles Ivain (Ivan Chtcheglov), "Formulary for a New Urbanism" (1953), in Situationist International Anthology, ed. and trans. Ken Knabb (Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1981), 4; trans. modified
12. See also Guy Debord, "Exercise in Psychogeography" (1954), in Theory of the Dérive, ed. Andreotti and Costa, 42
13. and "Architecture and Play" (1955), in Theory of the Dérive, ed. Andreotti and Costa, 53, for other comments on Ludwig II
14. A gloss on the Situationist interest in this figure may be found in Simon Sadler, The Situationist City (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1998), 110-116
15. Guy Debord, "Report on the Construction of Situations and on the Terms of Organization and Action of the International Situationist Tendency" (1957), trans. Tom McDonough, in Guy Debord and the Situationist International, ed. McDonough, 46
16. As Charles Baudelaire famously phrased it in his prose poem of the same title. See his "Anywhere Out of the World," in Paris Spleen (1869), trans. Louise Varèse (New York: New Directions, 1970), 99-100
17. See, for example, the invaluable testimony provided by Jean-Michel Mension in La Tribu (Paris: Éditions Allia, 1998), 108-111
18. Guy Debord, Mémoires (1958) (Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert aux Belles Lettres, 1993), n.p
19. Guy-Ernest Debord, "Two Accounts of the Dérive" (1956), trans. Thomas Y. Levin, in On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time, ed. Elisabeth Sussman (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989), 137
20. Debord, "Two Accounts of the Dérive," 137
21. Salvador Dali, "Tho Stinking Ass" (1930), trans. J. Bronowski, in Surrealists on Art, ed. Lucy R. Lippard (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1970), 97
22. Guy Debord, "Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography" (1955), in Situationist International Anthology, ed. and trans. Knabb, 5 (translation modified)
23. Dali, "The Stinking Ass," 98
24. Dali, "The Stinking Ass," 99-100. Hal Foster discusses this passage and Dali's interest in art nouveau in terms of Walter Benjamin's analysis of the outmoded, a concept that might in this case not shed as much light as the author hopes
25. See Hal Foster, Compulsive Beauty (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1993), 182-188
26. André Breton, "Surrealist Situation of the Object" (1935), in André Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism, trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1972), 260-262
27. Maurice Nadeau, The History of Surrealism (1944), trans. Richard Howard (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989), 183-184; emphasis added
28. See Carolyn J. Dean, The Self and Its Pleasures (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992), 42-48
29. Sigmund Freud, "Totem and Taboo" (1913), in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. 13, ed. and trans. James Strachey (London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1955), 85-86
30. Freud, "Totem and Taboo," 86
31. Freud, "Totem and Taboo," 86 n. 2; emphasis in original
32. Debord, "Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography," 7; trans, modified; emphasis in original
33. Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendall (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), 100-101
34. For an account of this strategy, see Guy Debord, "Theory of the Dérive" (1958), in Situationist International Anthology, ed. and trans. Knabb, 50-54
35. Freud, "Totem and Taboo," 85
36. See Salvador Dali, "De la beauté terrifiante et comestible de l'architecture 'modern' style," Minotaure 3-4 (1933), 69-76
37. On metonymy as a type of synecdoche, see Tzvetan Todorov, "Synecdoques," Communications 16 (1970), esp. 30-31
38. It was Lacan who first posited the metaphorical and metonymic qualities of unconscious processes in his famous lecture on "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud" (1957), in Écrits: A Selection, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Norton, 1977), 146-178
39. Debord, "Theory of the Dérive," 53