Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration.

datacide January 25, 2009July 27, 2024 1 Comment Book Review

A post-situ book-sized journal with the accent upon psycho-geography, political debate and urbanism.

Transgressions contains field reports of ‘drifts’ , an article by the Luther Blissets’ on multiple names and various review articles.

However this issue is notable for its inclusion of a text by painter and pre-situ Asger Jorn. His ‘Critique of Economic Policy’ is something of situ gem in that, to quote the abstract, it “addresses the inability of marxism to provide a coherent interpretation of value” and posits an assertion of “the liberating nature of art…. as a source of counter value”.

Jorn’s text is hard going but its contrariness to situ and leftist orthodoxy makes it compelling: a route back to 1959. To start all over again send ~~£7 to Salamander Press, Island House, Roserton Street, London E14.~~

2024 Note: Transgressions – A Journal of Urban Exploration appeared in 5 issues published by teh Geography Department of the University of Newcastle England in the mid-late 90s. Edited by Alastair Bonnett. Review Editor was Fabian Tompsett.

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