Twenty Six Psychogeography Stations

TWENTYSIX PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY STATIONS by Darrant Hinisco is still available, but there are only 20 left of this limited edition. It is based on the famous artist’s book by Ed Ruscha TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS (a truly psychogeographical artist’s book), and faithfully follows its format and style. This is what Darrant Hinisco and Tina Richardson say in the preface:

This artist’s book is a collaboration with my publisher, Tina Richardson. Between us we have curated this set of photographs from my own collection, mostly from my travels in the United Kingdom and United States. The photos included herein are a response to the psychogeographical phenomena known as ‘perambulatory hinges’ or, how I have termed them here, psychogeography stations. I would like to thank Tina for all her help during the making of this book and for producing it as an Urban Gerbil Publication. 

Darrant Hinisco 2015

In August 2015 Darrant approached me to produce his first artist’s book after coming across a copy of STEPZ: A Psychogeography and Urban Aesthetics Zine in a second-hand bookshop in Lisbon. Darrant had already begun working on a collection of his urban landscape images and on discovering STEPZ decided he would like his images to be published under the rubric of psychogeography. I would like to thank Darrant for trusting me with his first publication and I feel honoured to have worked with him on putting this collection together.

Tina Richardson 2015

TWENTYSIX PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY STATIONS is an Urban Gerbil Publication and you can read Darrant’s pre-launch announcement here. Photographs are reproduced in black and white and the cover is red and white as shown. The 50 page, A5 size book costs £4.50 plus postage at UK standard letter rate.

Related links:
STEPZ: A Psychogeography and Urban Aesthetics Zine 

'Let Me Tell You a Story' by Fenella Brandenburg

Let Me Tell You a Story: Presupposed actualization and the discourse of architectural development plans.

By Fenella Brandenburg.

Limited edition: only 10 available.

This essay is by the infamous academic and agent provacateur Fenella Brandenburg. Brandenburg is well-known for her appearance as keynote speaker at the Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography (4WCOP) in September 2017 at Huddersfield University, alongside David Bollinger.

• Published by Urban Gerbil
• Size: A5
• Pages: 33
• Black and white images: 2
• Colour images: 3
• White cover with blue text

Abstract of essay:
This essay discusses how architectural development plans form a narrative that tells a story of the future space being proposed. This story, embedded in a discourse that is circulated by those in authority in regard to the project’s manifestation, has two main effects. Firstly, it changes the subjectivity of those involved in the decision-making process and, secondly, the ideological structure surrounding the development makes the anticipated project, in the minds of those involved, exist in advance. These effects are known as presupposed actualization. By providing an example of a development project carried out in the UK in the 1960s - and by using theories around narratology, ideology, discourse and representation – the author demonstrates how this comes about through the telling of a story and because of the material actions undertaken by those invested in the project.

You can buy your copy for £4.00 + UK postage.

Tina on Trump: Truth, Reality, Language & Myth

Below are the posts I have written on Donald Trump, all in one place, for easy access. I started writing these in 2016. They are academic critiques based on some of my own observations and underpinned with, mostly, poststructural philosophical cultural theory. I hope you find them interesting:

Nov 2016: #PresidentTrump - A Simulated Hold-Up

May 2016: Myth Today: Truth and Trumph in a Trump World

May 2020: #Post-Truth - Trump, Truth and Treachery in the Post Post-Modern

On Moments & Meaning...

 

This limited edition A5 booklet of poetry is a curated collection of the work of the Yorkshire New Wave poet, Clifford Nicholas.

Nicholas (1928-2021) was born in the North East of England, and his family moved to Leeds (West Yorkshire) when he was a small child. The University of Leeds is the site of the most complete hard copy collection of his previous work and is held in Special Collections.

Nicholas’s poetry has historically been published by Aquila, but also by a collaborative small poetry press called Scree which he ran, with two other editors, in Norfolk during the same period. A number of his poems were also broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4 during the 1970s. This collection is the most relevant of his works to date. The booklet includes poems from the 1960s to shortly before his death in 2021. Many of the poems included here have never been in print before.

This hard copy A5 booklet comes with a high-quality white card cover with coloured print. The inside is black and white text. It is a 28 page booklet, containing 13 carefully selected poems by the editor, Tina Richardson. There is also a foreword by the editor. Here is the list of contents:

Price & Postage

There are only 25 hard copies available and there will be no reprint when these are gone.

Hard copy: £6.90

Digital copy: £3.50

Postage: 1 copy is standard letter class for UK mail. Please enquire for further details or international prices. 

Please Note

This booklet is professionally printed, so the price is slightly higher than my zines, which are produced at home.

The Problem With...THE FETISH!

 

This zine is for anyone interested in 'love tokens', both historic and contemporary, and capital as theoretical subjects. The author uses key cultural studies critique from political and psychoanalytical theories in order to analyse and compare the two subjects.

Both these theories cover, amongst many other things, the way objects are fetishised and hence how they are removed from their ‘true’ origins. Here the author looks at desire (sex/romance) and capitalism (money/production) by providing a number of examples of how they are connected.

The zine is A5 size and includes text and coloured images and is available in both hard copy and digital format. The cover is coloured card (colour not specified).

Price: The zine is £4.90 and postage for UK comes under standard letter. Please enquire for international postage. The digital copy of the zine is £2.50 and will be provided via an email account.

Please note: This is a handmade zine and, by definition, will consequently have imperfections.

On Waking & Walking...

This booklet is for anyone interested in experimental prose/poetry, wordplay, philosophy, psychogeography, walking, psychoanalysis, and dreams, amongst other themes. The text steps in and out of wakefulness via the movement of walking. It is both a play on words and an expression of the author’s interests as both a psychogeographer and an academic who studies psychoanalytic theory. The texts included here range from poems that reflect dream-like states, to rhythmic verses that imitate the act of walking itself. The prose texts involve imaginary interviews with people both real, dead, and fictional, and experiential texts on actual walks. Some of the contributions also include experimental forms that are coextensive with the contents of the text themselves.

The following is an endorsement by Phil Dickinson/Mere Pseud (Bowling Green State University/Crystal City):

Wa(l)king through the sixteen stations in T Richardson's newest zine is a desire-path pilgrimage of becoming-self, becoming-word, becoming-footfall, becoming-synapse, an uncanny encounter with "something that tugs and twists inside." Sixteen stepz across thresholds & wormholes of concrete poetry, mindfall mazes of mythic conversation, I/eye as iteration, creativity as cloud-edge congealment, movement as mantra, suturing a self stitched back through the science of ghosts to deathfugue & dreams & purloined theorylines even as the wa(l)king mind evaporates like breath forward!, forward!, out&into the pink significations of the mall. Highly recommended!

Format

The booklet is A5 size with a coloured high-gloss cover. The text inside is black and white.

Price & Postage

Hard copy: £5.90

Digital copy: £3.50

Postage: 1 copy is standard letter class for UK mail. Please enquire for further details or international prices.

Please Note

This booklet is made/produced by the author and not 'mass-produced' so, by definition, may have some imperfections.

The Problem With...KITSCH!

This zine is for anyone interested in kitsch from an everyday or academic perspective. The author provides her own kitsch objects, alongside some well-known ones, in order to explore and critique kitsch throughout its history. 

The zine is A5 size and includes text and black and white images for hard copies and colour for digital ones (highly illustrated). The hard copy cover is coloured card (colour not specified). The contents includes, among other subjects: kitsch from the 19C, sixties kitsch and contemporary kitsch. Here is the contents page:

 

Price:

The hard copy zine is £3.90 and postage for UK comes under standard letter. Please enquire for international postage.

The digital copy of the zine is £2.50 and will be provided via an email account.

Please note: This is a handmade zine and, by definition, will consequently have imperfections.