The London Psychogeographical Association (LPA) is a largely fictitious organisation devoted to psychogeography. The name has been employed in the work of at least two prominent situationists and the LPA is best understood in the context of situationist practice. Psychogeography is The study of specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals, according to the article Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation, in (1958) . // Development Psychogeography was originally developed by the Lettrist International, as a hypergraphics in their system of... The Situationist International (SI) was an international political and artistic movement which has parallels with Marxism, Dadaism, Existentialism, Anti-consumerism, Punk, Anarchism and the early twentieth century European artistic avant garde. ...

CPL

The LPA was first named in 1957 by the British artist Ralph Rumney, as one of the organisers of the "First Exhibition of Psychogeography" in Brussels, which included his work.[1] According to many accounts the group (which was also referred to as the London Psychogeographical Insitute or Society, and may or may not have involved other people besides Rumney) eventually merged into the Situationist International.[2] Ralph Rumney (June 5, 1934 - March 6, 2002) artist, born in Newcastle, England. ... The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio dArroscia on 28 July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International, the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association. ...

See also the French Wiki[pedia article Comité psychogéographique de Londres

LPA(ELS)

In the 1990s, the LPA was reinvoked as the LPA East London Section, by Richard Essex and the writers grouped around the multiple user name Luther Blissett, including Stewart Home, who published a series of newsletters and pamphlets under its name. The first notable Luther Blissett is the footballer. ... Stewart Home (born 1962) is a British fiction writer, subcultural pamphleteer, underground art historian, and activist. ...

This version of the LPA has been described by the writer Iain Sinclair, whose work is often described as psychogeographical, as useful in "branding" that kind of practice.[3][4] For the Australian politician, see Ian Sinclair Iain Sinclair is a British writer and film maker. ... Psychogeography is The study of specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals, according to the article Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation, in (1958) . // Development Psychogeography was originally developed by the Lettrist International, as a hypergraphics in their system of...

The work of Luther Blissett, Stewart Home and other psychogeographical groups is said to involve the issuing of numerous leaflets and letters under a series of aliases, both personal and organisational, and the description of interactions, including collaborations and feuds, between both these and other, real people and groups (for example between Luther Blissett and the parapolitical researcher Larry O'Hara).[5]

Some may feel that this makes the 'actual' nature and history of the LPA and other elements of Home's universe very difficult to establish, a situation exacerbated by the contributions to his work of collaborators and fans. Some Home-related entries on Wikipedia appear at times to have been edited towards this general end.

Others will counter that the LPA is itself an open experiemnt in hypertext/graphics, meta-writing and Communism, of which the Wikipedia project forms an integral part. Wikipedia (IPA: , or ) is a multilingual Web-based free-content encyclopedia. ...

However, despite the disputes of existence and non-existence, the last LPA Newsletter was issued around the year 2000.

See also

Neoist Alliance New Lettrist International Association of Autonomous Astronauts Group moniker used by Stewart Home between 1994 and 1999 as a corporate identity for his mock-occult psychogeographical activities. ... The Preliminary Committee for the Founding of a New Lettrist International (NLI) was organised by the Neoist Alliance and the London Psychogeographical Association. ... AAA logo The Association of Autonomous Astronauts is a world-wide network of community based groups dedicated to building their own spaceships. ...

External links

• The Great Conjunction: The Symbols of a College, the Death of a King and the Maze on the Hill (Unpopular Books, 1992) - a booklet authored jointly by the LPA and the Archaeogeodetic Association
• LPA Newsletter no. 1 - February 1993
• LPA Newsletter no. 2 - May 1993
• LPA Newsletter no. 3 - August 1993
• LPA Newsletter no. 12 - May 1995
• LPA Newsletter no. 18 - May 1997