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+# Dérive and Mapping
+
+Three traditions of *attentive movement through territory* as ideation:
+- **Situationist dérive** — Guy Debord, *Théorie de la dérive* (1958). Drift through a city, displacing productive uses with attentive wandering.
+- **Kevin Lynch's cognitive mapping** — *The Image of the City* (1960). Five-element vocabulary for mental maps: paths, edges, districts, nodes, landmarks.
+- **Gaston Bachelard's topoanalysis** — *La Poétique de l'espace* (1958). Phenomenological reading of intimate spaces.
+
+## When to use
+
+- Entering an unfamiliar field — drift before forming hypotheses
+- Picking a research subject or thesis topic
+- Major life decision (where to live, what to study) — visit the territories
+- Site-specific creative work
+- Refreshing your own work — small-space artist date
+
+## Don't use when
+
+- Time pressure (drift is slow)
+- Goal-directed search (drift is for *not knowing what you're looking for*)
+- Group sizes that make drift into tourism (works solo or 2–3)
+- Using "dérive" as alibi for procrastination (real dérive has discipline)
+
+## Single-day urban dérive
+
+1. Pick a territory you don't know — an unfamiliar neighborhood, a long bus route, two hours' walk in a direction you don't usually go.
+2. Drop other agenda for the period. Phone away.
+3. Walk where attention pulls. No destination. Follow what calls; turn from what repels.
+4. Note specifics: what's on the walls? What does the neighborhood smell like? What stores survive here? Who's in this neighborhood at this hour?
+5. End-of-day: draw a Lynch-style map.
+6. Note surprises.
+
+## Lynch's vocabulary (use to structure dérive output)
+
+- **Paths** — channels you move along (streets, walkways, transit, canals).
+- **Edges** — linear boundaries that aren't paths (shorelines, walls, river edges).
+- **Districts** — sections with common identifying character.
+- **Nodes** — strategic spots where movements converge (junctions, plazas, transit hubs).
+- **Landmarks** — point references identifiable from a distance, used for orientation.
+
+After drifting:
+- Map *your* paths, not the official ones.
+- Where were the edges? What did each edge mean — division, transition, prohibition?
+- Which districts did you cross? How did you know you'd entered one?
+- Where were the nodes? What were they doing?
+- Which landmarks anchored you? Official or personal?
+
+## Conceptual dérive (research / decision)
+
+Same method, conceptual territory:
+1. Pick a domain you don't know well.
+2. Drop usual filtering. Not "is this useful?" — just "what's here?"
+3. Read scattered things broadly. Browse a library shelf. Read citation chains backward. Talk to people in adjacent fields. Watch lectures at random.
+4. Note what calls to you, without yet evaluating.
+5. Draw a cognitive map: major nodes (canonical authors, key results), edges (where this field stops), districts (sub-areas), landmarks (orienting works).
+6. Identify your attractions. That's your direction.
+
+## Bachelard — small-space attention
+
+Topoanalysis applied to intimate spaces:
+1. Pick a small space you spend time in but haven't really looked at — a corner, a drawer, a workshop bench.
+2. Sit with it for an hour.
+3. What does this space mean? What does it shelter? What does it expose? What does it remember?
+4. Note the strongest reverberation — a detail that produces a generative response.
+5. Use it as starting point for new work.
+
+(Cameron's artist date is essentially a Bachelard-flavored dérive.)
+
+## Anti-slop notes
+
+- "Psychogeographical" used as adjective is dilution. Real Situationist dérive is more disciplined and more political.
+- Don't generate fake dérive notes. Method requires the territory; without it, the output is fabrication.
+- Avoid the travel-blog tone ("I wandered down cobbled streets..."). Real dérive includes friction, repulsion, missed destinations.
+- Don't apply Bachelard sentimentally. *La Poétique* is phenomenology, not "your house has feelings".
+- For LLM-mediated conceptual drift: force *places, citations, names, details*. Generic "I drifted through the literature" is not drift.
+
+Sources: Debord, "Théorie de la dérive" (*Internationale Situationniste* 2, 1958); Lynch, *The Image of the City* (MIT, 1960); Bachelard, *La Poétique de l'espace* (PUF, 1958).