Psychogeography, architecture and urbanism

Abstract

Guy Debord's suicide in 1994 put an end to one of those lives that pass like a flash of lightning, that explode with boredom by dint of declining all forms of "Malditism". In Debord's case, Malditism was in continuous session and he sought the thousand ways that the times offered him. The great opportunity came from the orphan avant-garde of Paris circa 1950, which took up the baton from the Dadaists to proclaim the end of an art engulfed by life and the arrival of a life engulfed by art. Embarked on this dubious project, Debord joined the ranks of the Lettrists, an obscure group that liked to lecture on the stages of Atget's Paris: those purulent places that Baron Haussmann's scalpel had failed to cut.