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Theory of the derive and other situationist writings on the city. City – Psychogeographic Microcosms. 70 (2010), I contributed a review, titled 'Situating the Situationists'. The mid-twentieth century in Paris saw a movement identified as the Situationist International. It looked at Guy Debord's Correspondence (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e) 2008) and Tom McDonough's The Situationists and the City (London: Verso 2010). The Situationist movement emerged as a critique of capitalism in 1957 and played a key role in the May 1968 uprising in Paris. Situationists and Independents felt that indigenous living patterns were best nurtured through the “clustering” of the city. €� By Tom McDonough – Tuesday, 16th March 2010. Posted by The Situationist Staff on January 5, 2009. Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 1996. Guy Debord's 1957 map The Naked City. Tom McDonough celebrates the subversive poetic vision of the Situationists. The Situationists: Guy Debord, Michèle Bernstein and Asger Jorn. One of its central ideas was “derive” or drift — wandering aimlessly through the streets of the city, open to real experience instead of being a passive slave to spectacle. Situationism was an urban movement, based primarily in Paris. Connected drift is based on the situationist technic of the psychogeographic walk in which chance and the surrounding environment itself determines the route taken. €�The Great Sideshow of the Situationist International.” Yale French Studies, vol. Last month, Rick Montgomery wrote an interesting article, “Behavioral Economics Is Moving from Theory to Policy,” for the Kansas City Star.