The city as the dialectical image of post-critical psychogeographic truth: An immersive awakening to the historical blueprint of educational pursuits

Abstract

This essay, along with the accompanying set of diagrammatic images, documents a psychogeographic educational rhythm. This Benjaminian process of contextual self-reflection builds on the scholarship of the philosopher Tyson Lewis, who presents Walter Benjamin's educational philosophy as an intermittent rhythm of immersive awakening within historical context. Having spent most of my life in an academic setting, I explore my curricular history in search of the dialectical images that hold the truth of my educational past in this particular moment in time. Awakening from my immersion, I reconstitute the image of a city where communication is not merely a means but the very goal of academic pursuit. Flânering through the streets of my memory, I reflect on the suddenness of encounters—despite difference—arriving at the post-critical meaning of my psychogeographic truth.

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