Recommend me some books on...

[Steel Icarus]

... liminal spaces, hauntology, psychogeography, edgelands, etc. I have read Edgelands and The Old Ways and am hungry for more similar non fiction.

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[hitmouse]

Laura Oldfield Ford - Savage Messiah? Mark Fisher - Weird and the Eerie? Maybe Avery F Gordon - Ghostly Matters? I am making my recommendations more liminal by putting question marks at the end of them.

 

[hitmouse]

Maybe Phil Neel - Hinterland as well?

 

[Orang Utan]

Weird Walk

Weird Walk: Wanderings and Wonderings Through the British Ritual Year

An epic folkloric guide to rambling, re-enchanting the landscape, and reconnecting with nature. 288 pages of brand new material (not in the zine!), plus a foreword by Stewart Lee. In this book is a radical idea. By walking the ancient landscape of Britain, engaging with the traces of the deep...

shop.weirdwalk.co.uk

 

[toblerone3]

Scarp by Nick Papadimitrou is excellent. accounts of nasty traffic accidents, 1970s prog rock cults and magical birds.

 

[marty21]

John Rogers has written a couple, and his youtube videos of his walks mention this sort of stuff a lot - he's linked in with Ian Sinclair (so him as well). He describes himself as a Psychogeographer

More here

John Rogers writer and film-maker

The blog of writer and film-maker John Rogers - author of This Other London: adventures in the overlooked city and director of The London Perambulator

thelostbyway.com

eta - I enjoyed the 2 books that John Rogers wrote - talks a lot about edgelands .