<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: sans-serif; " class="Apple-style-span">The French word dériv</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span">é</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: sans-serif; " class="Apple-style-span"> is pronounced quite differently than the English word derive. (Perhaps someone on this list like Lanny Cotler can explain the French pronunciation?) The French </span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span">dériv</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span">é</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: sans-serif; " class="Apple-style-span"> has its origins in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterist_International" title="Letterist International" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">Letterist International</a> of the 1940s, an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde" title="Avant-garde" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">artistic</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_analysis" title="Marxist analysis" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="mw-redirect">political</a> collective based in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" title="Paris" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">Paris</a>, where it was a critical tool for understanding and developing the theory of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography" title="Psychogeography" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " class="">psychogeography</a>, defined as the "specific effects of the geographical environment (whether consciously organized or not) on the emotions and behavior of individuals....</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span"> A </span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span"><b class="">dérive</b></span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span"> is an unplanned journey through a landscape. (more below),</span><div class=""><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif" size="4" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 22px;" class="Apple-style-span"><br class=""></span></font><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; " class="Apple-style-span"><div data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; " class="_5pbx userContent"><div id="id_538a0f4e91a8f8808417706" style="display: inline; " class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; display: block; " class="">Raoul Vaneigem, the last of the great situationists, speaks of his "derives" (walking adventures) with his friend, Guy Debord (author of Society of the Spectacle). I wonder if any of us monocultural Americans have ever had such pleasures, or if we can even understand them: "MY psychogeographic dérives with Guy Debord in Paris, Barcelona, Brussels, Beersel, and Antwerp were exceptional moments, combining theoretical speculation, sentient intelligence, the critical analysis of <span style="display: inline; " class="text_exposed_show">beings and places, and the pleasure of cheerful drinking. Our homeports were pleasant bistros with a warm atmosphere, havens where one was oneself because one felt in the air something of the authentic life, however fragile and short-lived. It was an identical mood that guided our wanderings through the streets, the lanes and the alleys, through the meanderings of a pleasure that our every step helped us gauge in terms of what it might take to expand and refine it just a little further. I have a feeling that the neighborhoods destroyed by the likes of Haussmann, Pompidou, and the real estate barbarians will one day be rebuilt by their inhabitants in the spirit of the joy and the life they once harbored." from <a href="http://www.e-flux.com/journal/in-conversation-with-raoul-vaneigem/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; " class="">http://www.e-flux.com/journal/in-conversation-with-raoul-vaneigem/</a></span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span">Dérvie is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually </span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City" title="City" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; " class="">urban</a></span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span">, on which the subtle aesthetic contours of the surrounding </span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture" title="Architecture" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; " class="">architecture</a></span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span"> and </span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography" title="Geography" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; " class="">geography</a></span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span"> subconsciously direct the travelers, with the ultimate goal of encountering an entirely new and authentic experience. Situationist theorist </span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Debord" title="Guy Debord" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; " class="">Guy Debord</a></span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span"> defines the dérive as "a mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances." </span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; " class="Apple-style-span"><div class=""><div data-ft="{"tn":"H"}" class=""><div id="u_2r_2" data-ft="{"tn":"H"}" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 0px 0px 0px 1.5px inset, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.046875) 0px 1px 1px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; z-index: 0; zoom: 1; margin-top: 10px; " class="_6m2 _dcs _4_w4 clearfix _59ap mtm"><div style="position: relative; z-index: 1; " class="_6ks"><a href="http://www.e-flux.com/journal/in-conversation-with-raoul-vaneigem/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; " class=""></a></div></div></div></div></span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; " class="Apple-style-span"><sup id="cite_ref-Debord1958Definitions_1-0" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " class="reference"></sup></span><div class=""><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif" size="4" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 22px;" class="Apple-style-span"><br class=""></span></font></div></div></div></body></html>