Flaneur

• A [[type]].
  • [[personality]].
  • #pull [[flâneur]]
  • #pull [[baudelaire]] [[walter benjamin]]
  • I am a [[flaneur]] in [[merveilles]]:
    • [[mastodon]] https://merveilles.town/@flaneur
  • I've written about [[flaneur]] as a hypothetical [[web browser]]:
    • [[browser]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1353369766854086656 pull

flâneur

the flâneur’s raison d’etre—to participate fully through observation

– In Praise of the Flâneur

[[Psychogeographers]] idolise the flâneur, a figure conceived in 19th-century France by [[Charles Baudelaire]] and popularised in academia by [[Walter Benjamin]] in the 20th century. A romantic stroller, the flâneur wandered about the streets, with no clear purpose other than to wander.

– Psychogeography: a way to delve into the soul of a city

The figure of the [[flâneur]]—the stroller, the passionate wanderer emblematic of nineteenth-century French literary culture—has always been essentially timeless; he removes himself from the world while he stands astride its heart.

– In Praise of the Flâneur

“[the flâneur] was a figure of the modern artist-poet, a figure keenly aware of the bustle of modern life, an amateur detective and investigator of the city, but also a sign of the alienation of the city and of capitalism,”

– In Praise of the Flâneur