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  <title>Psychogeography (Pocket Essentials)</title>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this would read better as a series of introduction essays to a reader, rather than a stand alone book.  While the analysis can often be concise, in many places Coverly merely skims over the surface. While I like the author's broad treatment of psychogeography, bringing in earlier folks like Blake, Defoe and Poe in an attempt to lay out the roots of the practice, it also cries out for more meat on such intriging bones.  It is as if he were taking this approach because of the concept's instant association with the Situationist, whom the author seems to disdain. He makes a fairly rough, though convincing argument that the Situationist were, in fact, not very good psychgeographers and represent only a narrow interpretation of a much more full and deserving practice.  This argument would be strengthen by spending more time fleshing out a fuller history and broader practice and less time bashing the SI.]]></body>
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