The Psychogeophysics Handbook (2010, draft)
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With psychogeography easily de ned as a playful examination of the total effects of geography and place on the individual, [“the study of the precise laws and specifi c effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.” Guy Debord. Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography, 1955]. Psychogeophysics extends such research to embrace geophysics, defined as the quantitative observation of the earth’s physical properties, and its interaction with local spectral ecologies. Geophysics equally encompasses archaeological geophysics, with measurement of such properties allowing for the mapping of previous traces through techniques of particle/wave detection and data forensics.
This extension of psychogeography into geophysics implies a collision between interpretation (fi ction) and measurement, with Psychogeophysics proposed as a novel discipline that bridges any such distinction through the medium of code, and offers a speculative take on the future of code as an uncovering of its locative (diagnostic) potentials leading to a new phase of software studies.
By anonymous
20 July 2010
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article about psychogeophysics (Anthony Iles, Mute)
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An updated version merging the reader and handbook is now available from:
http://odin.bek.no/~xxxxx/handbook_v02.pdf
With articles on the London summit and a few other deletions, additions.