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I’ve just started reading Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances which Penguin published in paperback in 2007, and it’s an amazing collection of essays on the “old, real London.” I’m still trying to make sense of the history of Camberwell College of Arts, Peckham, South London SE5 from a distance.

Doing further research on 1950s roots of psychogeography and relationships to the Lettrist International and the Situationist International led back to that lovely title from Elizabeth Sussmann and Peter Wollen’s 1989 book: “On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time“ then led me to the London Psychogeographical Association. Their 1990s East London newsletters ELPAN are available online along with their polemical manifesto: Why Psychogeography.