Deep Dérive

J. Armstrong
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Chapter Six, ‘Deep Dérive,’ explores Philippe Vasset’s La conjuration [The Conjuration] (2013). Vasset’s novel depicts a Paris now fully governed by logics of capitalist urban planning and spectacle. Vasset’s would-be psychogeographer narrator suffers existential crisis in such conditions. For him, the city has reduced its users to the role of those ‘computer-generated nobodies’ who appear in the proudly displayed images of future shopping centers. However, he founds a cult that develops, to mystical proportions, the art of anonymity, until they are able to penetrate undetected into even the most high-security skyscrapers of La Défense. In the ultimate psychogeographical space-hack, the cult is thus able to ‘abolish at will the frontier between public space and private property.’ As they circulate like ‘a school of fish’ through the urban fabric, they would experience the city in all its infinite nuance. However, as their ‘powers’ grow, abstraction and eschatology ultimately depict them as having lost touch with the territory. Their true, ironic, apotheosis comes when they fully resemble those ‘computer-generated nobodies’ that had fascinated the narrator early on. Vasset’s novel is read in the light of Situationist notions of the city and Bruno Latour’s writings on panoptica and oligoptica.
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第六章,“Deep dsamrive”,探讨了菲利普·瓦塞特(Philippe Vasset)的《魔咒》(The conjuration)(2013)。瓦塞特的小说描绘了一个完全被资本主义城市规划和景观逻辑所统治的巴黎。在这种情况下,瓦塞特想成为心理地理学家的叙述者遭受了生存危机。在他看来,这座城市已经把它的用户变成了那些“电脑生成的无名小卒”,出现在自豪地展示的未来购物中心的图片中。然而,他发现了一个邪教,发展到神秘的程度,匿名的艺术,直到他们能够不被发现地渗透到La dassafense最高安全级别的摩天大楼。因此,在终极的心理地理空间hack中,邪教能够随意废除公共空间和私有财产之间的边界。当他们像“一群鱼”一样在城市肌体中循环时,他们将体验到城市所有无限的细微差别。然而,随着他们“权力”的增长,抽象和末世论最终将他们描绘成与领土失去联系。当他们完全像那些“电脑生成的无名小卒”时,他们真正的、具有讽刺意味的神化就来了。瓦塞特的小说是根据情境主义的城市观念和布鲁诺·拉图尔关于全景和寡光的著作来阅读的。
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