What is Psychogeography? with Iain Sinclair

This is a live audio recording plus transcript of me and Iain Sinclair answering an audience question of What Is Psychogeography at the Wanstead Tap, May 2024. Could you both please try and define psychogeography? Iain Sinclair: Now, John, John Rogers: You can’t be sat here with Iain Sinclair the one person you think can answer that question? I’ll tell you what I’m going to do Iain. I’m going to I’m going to hand this. I’m going to I’m going to find a point to hand it back to you. So Psychogeography, as I understood it In a way is two things, there is the classical definition of it, which is developed by a guy who’s kind of been written out of history a little bit Ivan Chtcheglov Or Gilles Ivain who was a very precocious young man, but there were a group of French pseudo intellectuals who become French intellectuals, were very interested in town planning and architecture And they hated modernism and they hated the surrealists. And so they thought cities were constraining the human…