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During their wanderings in the Summer of 1953, an 'illiterate Kabyle' suggested to them the term Psychogeography. They published an information bulletin called Potlatch. One of their most important texts was Ivan Chtcheglov's Formula for a New Urbanism which was not published until 1958 in the first issue of the journal Situationniste Internationale. He advocated a new city where everyone would be able to live in their own cathedral. Theory utopianism was accompanied by the derive or drift, whereby they wander like clouds through the urban environment, producing something which they called unitary urbanism . In his Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography (published in the Belgian surrealist magazine Les Levres Nues , No. 6, 19551955 is a common year starting on Saturday. see link for calendar) Events January events January 2 Panama president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated. January 19 The Scrabble board game debuts. February events February 8 Nikolai Bulganin ousts Georgi Mal) Guy DebordGuy Debord ( December 28, 1931- November 30, 1994) was a member of the Lettrist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie and the founder and chief theorist of the Situationist International (SI). Life and work Debord was the son of Paulette Rossi and Martial described a colleague wandering through the HarzThe Harz is a mountain range in northern Germany. It is located on the border between the states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, hence being the northernmost mountain chain of Germany. The name "Harz" is derived from a Middle High German word meaning " region of GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east blindly following a mapFor alternative meanings see Map (disambiguation A map is a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional space. The science of making maps is called cartography. Introduction Mapmaking dates back at least to the Stone Age and appears to predate w of LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri. This is still a favourite methodology amongst psychogeographers. They produced a broad range of proposals: the abolition of museums and the placing of art in bars, keeping the Metro open all night, opening the roofs of Paris like pavements with escalators to help gain access.
They also developed detournement as a technique of reutilising previous material for a radical purpose.
On 28th July 1957 they fused with the International Movement For An Imaginist Bauhaus and the London Psychogeographical Association to form the Situationist International.
Those involved in the LI include:
The story of the Lettrists was documented in Greil Marcus's book " Lipstick Traces ."
The New Lettrist International was founded more recently.
"Lettrism was conceived in Romania by Isidore Isou in 1942. He was only sixteen years old." - Jean-Paul Curtay , La Poesie Lettriste, Paris 1974
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