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First Big Ideas Podcast: Psychogeography

5 November 2007 – 7:20 am by The Big Ideas Team

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A few days ago we got four people together in a pub in the City of London to talk about psychogeography, a modern phenomenon with roots stretching back into the avant gardes of the middle of the last century.

Danny Birchall, Nathan Charlton, Rich Cochrane and Robert Kingham discussed Guy Debord, situationism, architecture, Archigram, radical politics, urbanism, Paris and London, ley lines, Hegel, Jack the Ripper, Hawksmoor, Milton Keynes, the Paris Plage, putting theory into practice and a whole lot of other things.

You can subscribe to the feed here. The podcast is 45 minutes long. All the books referred to are listed in the psychogeography section of the Big Ideas shop.

Big Ideas is a series of events we hold in a pub in central London on the last Tuesday of the month. Anyone is welcome to turn up.

Sessions generally start with a question. Someone who has some relevant expertise gives a very brief, informal talk. After that a discussion develops in a free and unstructured manner. It's not a lecture, and it's not a debate; it's a pub argument, but unlike any you've had before.

Our usual venue is upstairs at The Wheatsheaf, just off Oxford Street and 5 minutes' walk from Tottenham Court Road tube station, but check specific event details as we do occasionally do it in other places.

In case you were worried, Big Ideas isn't affiliated with any political, religious or other organisation, and we don't have any particular agenda.

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First Big Ideas Podcast: Psychogeography

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