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    <![CDATA[Provocateurs Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces in this post millennial meditation on the vexed relationship between psyche and place in a globalised world, bringing together for the first time the very best of their &quot;Psychogeography&quot; columns for the &quot;Independent&quot;. The introduction, 'Walking to New York', is both a prelude to the verbal and visual essays that make up this extraordinary collaboration, and a revealing exploration of the split in Self's Jewish American British psyche and its relationship to the political geography of the post 9/11 world. Ranging from the Scottish Highlands to Istanbul and from Morocco to Ohio, Will Self's engaging and disturbing vision is perfectly counter pointed by Ralph Steadman's edgy and beautiful artwork.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the first few bits and then skipped ahead to the obnoxious and bone-headed bit about Iowa (&quot;the people are fat and the land is flat&quot;) and a few others and made a very negative determination about this author's sensibility (idiotic) and abilities (sneeringly overwritten). The illustr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21596084">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;<strong>For those interested in the connection between people and place, the best of the decade long collaboration between literary brat packer Will Self and gonzo illustrator Ralph Steadman.</strong>&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Opening with a dazzling new 20,000-word essay on walking from London to New York, <em>Psychogeography</em> is a collection of 50 short pieces written over the last four years, together with 50 four-color illustrations by Ralph Steadman. In <em>Psychogeography</em> Self and Steadman explore the relationship between psyche and place in the contemporary world.  Self thinks most people have a &#8220;wind-screen-based virtuality&#8221; on long- and short-distance travel. We drive, take buses and trains, fly. To combat this compromised reality, Will Self walks, relating intimately to place, as pedestrians do. Ranging in subject from swimming the Ganges to motorcycling across the Australian outback, shopping in an Iowa mall to surfing a tsunami, <em>Psychogeography</em> is at once a map of our world and the psychoanalysis of the way we inhabit it. The pieces are serious, humorous, facetious, and rambunctious. Psychogeography, the study of the effects of geographical environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals, has captivated other writers including W. G. Sebald and Peter Ackroyd, but Self and Steadman have their own unique spin on how place shapes people and vice versa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Inspired by the Situationist Guy Debord's early studies of the effects of geography and landscape on consciousness, this is really more a series of cranky travel notes coupled with anecdotal memoirs of drug addiction.  A few comic gems but mostly nuggets of remembered angst.]]></body>
    
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