A Walk as Act / Enact / Re-enactment: Performing Psychogeography and Anthropology

Abstract

This book’s keywords of re-enactment, replication and reconstruction pose a distinction between an original on the one hand and some kind of copy on the other. The practice of walking and everyday life in general suggest alternatives. Using the series of terms ‘act’, ‘enact’ and ‘re-enactment’, the chapter investigates creativity in ways that cannot be reduced to the dichotomy of original and copy. It begins with an account of some pedagogical experiments into walking and psychogeography, and then explores the act of walking in psychogeography. It moves on to the enactment of shared practice between psychogeography and anthropology, and finally the re-enactment of psychogeography as anthropology, and vice versa.