Stupidly Excited

Here are two academically motivated posts. Read both. Mwa

I am stupidly excited because I have just finally understood psychogeography, which was a Situationist study of how the urban environment affects our experiences, our relationships and our lives - their actuality and their possibility. A way of mapping and analysing cities that discusses the effects on humen expereinces, feelings and social interactions of the built environment, and vis versa.

I probably haven't explained this enough at all, and you can read more by just looking up Psychogeography on Wikapedia or google, but its really exciting because I now know how to write my Fourth Chapter on Fiona McGrgor's novel "chemical palace" and Sydney!

I was just not getting it before - how Certeau and Guy Debord were in any way relavant to me - but now it is unbundantly clear and the possibilities for analysis are endless and almost tantilising!

Yay! I've got my mo-jo. This chapter is going to be the bomb!

Lucky, cos I was feeling as limp as an old zuchini about my thesis a few days ago... how things change.

Ah, the trials and tribulations of an academic!