WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING CONVICTS

Rather than go on and on in terrible descriptive sentences, I thought I’d stick to bullet points. Five Things I Learnt On My First Dérive: North Adelaide 1: It Stinks.  Local houses, Nth Adelaide Everywhere smells. Not in a bad way: North Adelaide has a constant fragrant scent of wood fires and rose, with a bit of lavender thrown in for an ‘old lady’ perfume. It’s quite lovely actually. Coming from the hotbed of Brisbane after almost four years,...

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IT'S ABOUT THE JOURNEY, NOT THE DESTINATION

Will Self once said that people today are “decoupled from physically geography.” He observes that walking “blows back the years, especially in urban contexts. The solitary walker is, himself, an insurgent against the contemporary world, an ambulatory time traveler.” A little bit wordy, a little bit wanky, but not far off the mark. La dérive is a term that was first coined by the Situationist movement in France that rose to prominence in the...

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