[HN Gopher] Walkers in the City and Everywhere: on Psychogeography
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Walkers in the City and Everywhere: on Psychogeography
Author : chippy
Score : 25 points
Date : 2023-10-06 10:12 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| neilv wrote:
| One of my awesome past significant others, I found due to
| something like some of the awareness talked about here.
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| She'd made a post on a dating site, asking, simply, what was your
| favorite part of the city, and why.
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| I responded with something about the different atmospheres of
| rather small areas, where the transitions are, etc.
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| I won, and our first date was to be a lunch break from her
| science lab work on a weekend. But after lunch we played hooky,
| and walked all around town and talked for many hours, ending up
| sitting on a harbor wharf.
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| Where one of the boats we saw was a ferry to Cape Cod, which I
| suggested as our second date. We just explored it without plans
| or arrangements.
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| (Much later, her heightened awareness grew to realizing she that
| could do better than me, :) but we did have some shared
| understanding and values about the world, and a lot of that was
| about perceiving, like when on walks.)
| JohnMakin wrote:
| I was wondering if there was a term for this. It is something I
| noticed a few months ago, when my phone broke at the precise time
| I had a full blown day-long internet outage at home. I got in my
| car and started driving around, looking for phone repair places.
| Asked for some directions. Walked into a pawn shop I normally
| wouldn't have. All in all it was an enjoyable/novel experience
| (compared to normal, anyway - I am old enough to remember a time
| when it was always like this) but definitely turned what should
| have been a ~30 minute chore to a 3 hour one.
| great_psy wrote:
| For anybody interested in being more present while walking, I
| recommend photography.
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| You will become more aware of your surroundings if you look for
| cool things to photograph. I recomand using an actual camera, the
| quality of it is irrelevant. Using your phone will be a
| distraction since you open it to take a photo, but see a
| notification from x and then you will at least think about how to
| respond, even if you don't open it.
| Zambyte wrote:
| Related to this: I have been working towards not carrying a
| phone around at all. Being a hyperconnected and reachable as we
| tend to be nowadays does not feel healthy. I recently set up a
| JMP Chat account so I can proxy SMS and calls to my XMPP
| account.
| wolverine876 wrote:
| If you live in a city, and travel on foot or bicycle, you can do
| this every day as part of daily business. You need some downtime
| and exercise at some point, you're outside anyway, so take
| advantage of the opportunity.
| kelseyfrog wrote:
| I've been fascinated with the idea of a derive for a few years,
| but have also been timid in actually doing one with a friend or
| acquaintance for fear of being asked basic questions like, "If
| you just want to go on a walk, we can go on a walk."
|
| To anyone whose derive'd, how did it go?
| zoklet-enjoyer wrote:
| I don't get it. A bunch of paragraphs on going for a walk?
| AlbertCory wrote:
| flaneur: a great word.
|
| when I see all these people walking around staring at their
| phones, I want to slap them with that word.
|
| Whatever it is on your phone, it'll wait. Whatever's happening in
| front of you: that will not wait, and it'll never come again.
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