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Dérive by zer0gee

March 7th, 2008 12:56 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Among the various situationist methods is the dérive [literally: 'drifting'], a technique of transient passage through varied ambiances. In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.

One can dérive alone, but all indications are that the most fruitful numerical arrangement consists of several small groups of two or three people who have reached the same awakening of consciousness, since the cross-checking of these different groups' impressions makes it possible to arrive at objective conclusions.

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Undertake a dérive, and report your objective conclusions to your fellow players.

My Internet Derive

I have this thing I do fairly frequently, where I start off wanting to read about a topic on the web, and follow link after link after link until I'm quite elsewhere, both on the internet and in my own mind. In fact, that is exactly how I found SF0 - I began by looking up information about ciphers and codes for a project I'm working on, read through an hour and a half's worth of linked topics (including such things as flash mobs and alternate reality gaming) as they caught my interest, finally ending up here. It's a mystical journey for me, discovering amazing and wondrous things, learning about stuff I may never have found out about otherwise. Therefore, when I read about the derive task, I was awestruck at how close the concepts were and decided to do an internet derive for you to follow.

I decided on a time limit of one hour. If I didn't set a deadline for myself, I would do this all night and you would be dreadfully bored by the endless list of results. I started off by Googling "derive" and choosing the link that was most attractive to me - my virtual wandering is documented as follows. Please feel free to click the links and retrace my steps.

http://library.nothingness.org/articles/all/en/display/314
http://library.nothingness.org/articles/4/en/display/2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettrist_International
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_urbanism
http://www.notbored.org/gallizio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detournement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming
http://www.areyougeneric.org/
http://www.flightphase.com/about.html
http://www.gravitytrap.com/
http://www.cubberleystudios.com/raggio.ht
http://shannongwright.blogspot.com/
http://www.maginot-line.com/ang/c_sommaire.htm

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posted by zer0gee on March 7th, 2008 12:59 AM

So, okay, you'll probably need to copy the links to your browser. Sorry! :)

While I tend to go for the street version of this task
posted by Burn Unit on March 7th, 2008 6:48 AM

Actually, I think this is a quite interesting take on the task and I'm surprised no one else did it before. Since you are the first, you get to set the bar--and hopefully preempt wan imitations! Thanks for documenting your trail; what if you also "report your findings" for us in terms of what you gained (or lost?) and what captured your imagination, &c. &c. ?


Though I'm reminded of something... ah yes
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posted by zer0gee on March 7th, 2008 9:19 AM

Thanks! I like to do the outside version, but it's pretty cold in Chicago right now and not friendly for an hours-long wander. I will take your suggestion and post more detailed findings, but I'd like to give it a couple of weeks in case players want to create their own experience with it first.

I *heart* xkcd!

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posted by Fonne Tayne on March 7th, 2008 6:21 PM

story of my life. yah.


i wish that would lead to omnisemantic knowledge... but no. not yet.

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posted by meredithian on June 23rd, 2008 8:15 AM

i definitely like the internet dérives. i think they are not *so* different from the physical ones; i equate ending up looking at cute pictures of someone's pet hamster on their crappy homemade website with, say, passing a strip mall or a gap or something - ubiquitious and inevitable. but then you'll also run across interesting sites like the links you've found, or pass some awesome abandoned buildings...

see, it evens out. there are things of interest *everywhere* if you're looking.