• Echidna64
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    		 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography


    Does our environment influence our behavior?


    It may sound farfetch'd at first, but I've been thinking more about this. For example, Shintoism which has been practiced by the Japanese for thousands of years is pretty much psychogeography in which spirits (kami) negatively or positively influence the natural environment.


    Geoglyphs or land manipulation/observance for spiritual significance has been common since the dawn of humanity.

    Also, Korean geomancers would identify landmarks of negative energy

    Another example of geomancy is feng shui



    What do you guys think, is psychogeography to be taken seriously?
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  • minimaster58
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    		 Sure, people who live in bad estates around here never get employed.
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  • Echidna64
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    minimaster58 wrote:
    Sure, people who live in bad estates around here never get employed.


    Funny you should say that, most of the psychogeographic studies have been conducted in parts of London

    Also Alan Moore's "From Hell," which is about Jack the Ripper, gets heavy into the psychological influences of London's landscape
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  • minimaster58
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    Echidna64 wrote:
    minimaster58 wrote:
    Sure, people who live in bad estates around here never get employed.


    Funny you should say that, most of the psychogeographic studies have been conducted in parts of London

    Also Alan Moore's "From Hell," which is about Jack the Ripper, gets heavy into the psychological influences of London's landscape

    Cool, so maybe if Jack the Ripper lived in a different area he wouldn't have become a serial killer, you think?
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  • PirateNinja6
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    		 Social ecology.
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  • Echidna64
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    PirateNinja6 wrote:
    Social ecology.


    First I've heard of that.

    Social ecology sounds a little different- how we as consumers are destroying the environment- how society affects nature. Whereas psychogeography would be how institutions, natural or artificial, affect us.


    Psychogeography would be more along the lines of how would growing up across from a butcher shop affect you as a kid? Or the house you lived in, or the location of your school, or the layout of streets.
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