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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

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Flâneur

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    • [[wp]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur
    • [[quote]] Flâneur is a French [[noun]] referring to a [[person]], literally meaning 'stroller', 'lounger', 'saunterer', or 'loafer', but with some nuanced additional meanings. Flânerie is the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations.
    • [[quote]] It was [[Walter Benjamin]], drawing on the poetry of [[Charles Baudelaire]], who made this figure the object of scholarly interest in the 20th century, as an emblematic archetype of urban, modern (even modernist) experience.
    • [[quote]] From his [[Marxist]] standpoint, Benjamin describes the flâneur as a product of modern life and the Industrial [[Revolution]] without precedent, a parallel to the advent of the tourist. His flâneur is an uninvolved but highly perceptive bourgeois dilettante. Benjamin became his own prime example, making social and aesthetic observations during long walks through Paris. Even the title of his unfinished [[Arcades]] Project comes from his affection for covered shopping streets.
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Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Those who are able to face the looming reality can easily feel trapped. Walter Benjamin’s prescient metaphor of our being caught in a train without brakes—his image of “progress”1—comes easily to mind.

– [[Red-Green Revolution]]

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