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Psychogeography, a subfield of geography, was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."^[1] Another definition is "a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities...just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape."^[2]

Development[link]

Psychogeography was originally developed by the avant-garde movement Lettrist International in the journal Potlach. The originator of what became known as unitary urbanism, psychogeography, and the dérive was Ivan Chtcheglov, in his highly influential 1953 essay "Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau" ("Formulary for a New Urbanism").^[3] The Lettrists' reimagining of the city has its precursors in aspects of Dadism and Surrealism. The idea of urban wandering relates to the older concept of the flâneur, theorized by Charles Baudelaire. Following Chtcheglov's exclusion from the Lettrists in 1954, [Guy Debord] and others worked to clarify the concept of unitary urbanism, in a bid to demand a revolutionary approach to architecture. At a conference in Coscio de Arroscia, Italy in 1956, the Lettrists joined the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus to set a proper definition for the idea announced by Gil J. Wolman "Unitary Urbanism - the synthesis of art and technology that we call for — must be constructed according to certain new values of life, values which now need to be distinguished and disseminated."^[4] It demanded the rejection of functional, Euclidean values in architecture, as well as the separation between art and its surroundings. The implication of combining these two negations is that by creating abstraction, one creates art, which, in turn, creates a point of distinction that unitary urbanism insists must be nullified. This confusion is also fundamental to the execution of unitary urbanism as it corrupts one's ability to identify where "function" ends and "play" (the "ludic") begins, resulting in what the Lettrist International and Situationist International believed to be a utopia where one was constantly exploring, free of determining factors.^{[citation needed]}

In "Formulary for a New Urbanism," Chtcheglov had written "Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams".^[5] Similarly, the Situationists found contemporary architecture both physically and ideologically restrictive, combining with outside cultural influence, effectively creating an undertow, and forcing oneself into a certain system of interaction with their environment: "[C]ities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones".^[6]

The Situationists' response was to create designs of new urbanized space, promising better opportunities for experimenting through mundane expression. Their intentions remained completely as abstractions. Guy Debord's truest intention was to unify two different factors of "ambiance" that, he felt, determined the values of the urban landscape: the soft ambiance – light, sound, time, the association of ideas – with the hard, the actual physical constructions. Debord's vision was a combination of the two realms of opposing ambiance, where the play of the soft ambiance was actively considered in the rendering of the hard. The new space creates a possibility for activity not formerly determined by one besides the individual.^{[citation needed]}

However, the Situationist International may have been tongue-in-cheek about some parts of psychogeography. "This apparently serious term ‘psychogeography,'" writes Debord biographer Vincent Kaufman, "comprises an art of conversation and drunkenness, and everything leads us to believe that Debord excelled at both."^[7]

Eventually, Debord and Asger Jorn resigned themselves to the fate of "urban relativity". Debord readily admits in his film A Critique of Separation (1961), "The sectors of a city…are decipherable, but the personal meaning they have for us is incommunicable, as is the secrecy of private life in general, regarding which we possess nothing but pitiful documents". Despite the ambiguity of the theory, Debord committed himself firmly to its practical basis in reality, even as he later confesses, "none of this is very clear. It is a completely typical drunken monologue…with its vain phrases that do not await response and its overbearing explanations. And its silences."^{[citation needed]}

Before settling on the impossibility of true psychogeography, Debord made another film, On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959), the title of which suggests its own subject matter. The film's narrated content concerns itself with the evolution of a generally passive group of unnamed people into a fully aware, anarchistic assemblage, and might be perceived as a biography of the situationists themselves. Among the rants which construct the film (regarding art, ignorance, consumerism, militarism) is a desperate call for psychogeographic action:

Moments later, Debord elaborates on the important goals of unitary urbanism in contemporary society:

Quoting Marx, Debord says:

While a reading of the texts included in the journal Internationale Situationniste may lead to an understanding of psychogeography as dictated by Guy Debord, a more comprehensive elucidation of the term would come from research into those who have put its techniques into a more developed practise. While Debord's influence in bringing Chtchglov's text to an international audience is undoubted, his ability to practise the 'praxis' of unitary urbanism has been placed into question by almost all of the subsequent protagonists of the Formulary's directives. Debord was indeed a notorious drunk (see his Panegyrique, Gallimard 1995), and his assertions regarding the veracity of the affects of the psychogeographical process (derive, constructed situation) must be questioned by this personal weakness. The researches undertaken by WNLA, AAA and the London Psychogeographical Association during the 1990's support the contention of Asger Jorn and the Scandinavian Situationniste (Drakagygett 1962 - 1998) that the psychogeographical is a concept only known through practise of its techniques. Without undertaking the programme expounded by Chtchglov, and the resultant submission to the urban unknown, comprehension of the Formulary is not possible. As Debord himself suggested, an understanding of the 'beautiful language' of situationist urbanism necessitates its practise. For those who wish to understand both the consequences and outcomes of psychogeographic research, exploration of the outcomes of its protagonists is strongly advised.

Dérive[link]

By definition, psychogeography combines subjective and objective knowledge and studies. Debord struggled to stipulate the finer points of this theoretical paradox, ultimately producing "Theory of the Dérive" in 1958, a document which essentially serves as an instruction manual for the psychogeographic procedure, executed through the act of dérive ("drift").

In the SI's 6th issue, Raoul Vaneigem writes in a manifesto of unitary urbanism, "All space is occupied by the enemy. We are living under a permanent curfew. Not just the cops – the geometry".^[8] Dérive, as a previously conceptualized tactic in the French military, was "a calculated action determined by the absence of a greater locus", and "a maneuver within the enemy's field of vision".^[9] To the SI, whose interest was inhabiting space, the dérive brought appeal in this sense of taking the "fight" to the streets and truly indulging in a determined operation. The dérive was a course of preparation, reconnaissance, a means of shaping situationist psychology among urban explorers for the eventuality of the situationist city.

Contemporary psychogeography[link]

Since the 1990's, as situationist theory became popular in artistic and academic circles, avant-garde, neoist and revolutionary groups emerged, developing psychogeographical praxis in various ways. Influenced primarily through the re-emergence of the London Psychogeographical Association and the foundation of The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture, these groups have assisted in the development of a contemporary psychogeography.

Between 1992 and 1996 The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture undertook an extensive programme of practical research into classic (situationist) psychogeography in both Glasgow and London. The discoveries made during this period, documented in the group's journal Viscosity, expanded the terrain of the psychogeographic into that of urban design and architectural performance.

The journal Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration (which appears to have ceased publication sometime in 2000) collated and developed a number of post-avant-garde revolutionary psychogeographical themes. The journal also contributed to the use and development of psychogeographical maps^[10] which have, since 2000 been used in political actions, drifts and projections, distributed as flyers. Since 2003 in the United States, separate events known as Provflux and Psy-Geo-conflux have been dedicated to action-based participatory experiments, under the academic umbrella of psychogeography.

Psychogeography also become a device used in performance art and literature. In Britain in particular, psychogeography has become a recognised descriptive term used in discussion of successful writers such as Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd and the documentaries of filmmaker Patrick Keiller. The popularity of Sinclair drew the term into greater public use in the United Kingdom. Though Sinclair makes infrequent use of the jargon associated with the Situationists, he has certainly popularized the term by producing a large body of work based on pedestrian exploration of the urban and suburban landscape. Sinclair and similar thinkers draw on a longstanding British literary tradition of the exploration of urban landscapes, predating the Situationists, found in the work of writers like William Blake, Arthur Machen, and Thomas de Quincey. The nature and history of London were a central focus of these writers, utilising romantic, gothic, and occult ideas to describe and transform the city. Sinclair drew on this tradition combined with his own explorations as a way of criticising modern developments of urban space in such key texts as Lights Out for the Territory. Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London: A Biography was partially based on similar sources. Merlin Coverley gives equal prominence to this literary tradition alongside Situationism in his book Psychogeography (2006), not only recognising that the situationist origins of psychogeography are sometimes forgotten, but that via certain writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Daniel Defoe and Charles Baudelaire they had a shared tradition. Psychogeography, as a term and a concept, now reaches more British eyes than ever before, as novelist Will Self had a column of that name which started out in the British Airways Inflight magazine and then appeared weekly in the Saturday magazine of The Independent newspaper until October 2008.

The concepts and themes seen in popular comics writers such as Alan Moore in works like From Hell are also now seen as significant works of psychogeography. Other key figures in this version of the idea are Walter Benjamin, J. G. Ballard, and Nicholas Hawksmoor. Part of this development saw increasing use of ideas and terminology by some psychogeographers from Fortean and occult areas like earth mysteries, ley lines, and chaos magic, a course pioneered by Sinclair. A core element in virtually all these developments remains a dissatisfaction with the nature and design of the modern environment and a desire to make the everyday world more interesting.

After a few years of practicing, the psychogeography group that gravitates around the Urban Squares Initiative and Aleksandar Janicijevic,^[11][12] the initiator of, and main figure in organizing and leading this group, came up with the working definition of this procedure as: "The subjective analysis–mental reaction, to neighbourhood behaviours related to geographic location. A chronological process based on the order of appearance of observed topics, with the time delayed inclusion of other relevant instances".^[13] Bill Humber [Executive Director, Revitalization Institute, Toronto, Canada],^[14][15] a participant in a few of our walks, described our intentions in his article about psychogeography like this: "In discovering a small world we discover the whole world."^[16]

Groups involved in psychogeography[link]

Psychogeography is practiced both experimentally and formally in groups or associations, which sometimes consist of just one member. Known groups, some of whom are still operating, include:

• Bay Area Rapid Transit Psychogeographical Association
• London Psychogeographical Association
• Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies
• The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture

Noted psychogeographers[link]

• Stewart Home
• Members of the Situationist International
• Will Self
• Iain Sinclair
• Paul Conneally
• Guy Debord
• Dave Allen
• Peter Ackroyd
• Aleksandar Janicijevic
• Pat Barker
• Joseph O'Kelly

See also[link]

• Hypergraphy
• Desire line
• Ecocriticism
• Nottingham Psychogeographical Unit
• Psychohistory
• Social trail
• Wayfinding

References[link]

• Kaufman, Vincent. Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006).
• Knabb, Ken (editor) Situationist International Anthology. (Berkley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1995).
• McDonough, Tom (editor) Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents. (Boston: October P, 2004).

Further reading[link]

• Balsebre, Gianluigi, Della critica radicale. Bibliografia ragionata sul'internazionale situazionista con testi inediti in italiano (Bologna: Grafton 9, 1995). (in Italian)
• Balsebre, Gianluigi, Il territorio dello spettacolo (s.l.: Potlatch, 1997). (in Italian)
• Coverley, Merlin. Psychogeography. (London: Pocket Essentials, 2006).
• Debord, Guy (editor). Guy Debord presente Potlatch (Paris: Folio, 1996).
• Ford, Simon. The Situationist International: A User's Guide. (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2005).
• Home, Stewart. Mind Invaders: A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage and Semiotic Terrorism (Serpent's Tail London, 1997).
• Law, Larry, and Chris Gray (editors) Leaving the 20th Century: the Incomplete Work of the Situationist International. (London: Rebel P, 1998).
• Sadler, Simon. The Situationist City. (Cambridge: MIT P, 1998).
• Wark, McKenzie. 50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International (New York, Princeton Architectural, 2008).
• Aleksandar Janicijevic, "Psychogeography Now - Window to the Urban Future" (Toronto, June 2008) (International Journal for Neighbourhood Renewal, Liverpool, UK) [6]
• Phil Smith, Mythogeography: A Guide to Walking Sideways
• Vazquez, Daniele Manuale di Psicogeografia (Cuneo: nerosubianco edizioni, 2010). [7]

External links[link]

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• Guide psychogeographique de Paris. Guy Debord's famous map of Paris
• Phil Smith's Mythogeography
• Nick Papadimitriou's Middlesex Deep Topography site
• BART Psychogeographical Association
• Urban Squares Project
• The Materialist Psychogeographic Affiliation
• Toronto Psychogeography Society Blog
• Glowlab
• Conflux
• iKatun
• Tim Devin
• The Institute for Infinitely Small Things
• Interview with Merlin Coverley
• Regula Pragensis
• Methinks Presents
• Urban Paradoxes
• Pittsburgh Psychogeographical Society
• CitySpinning
• WHYY Radio segment with Will Self, noted Psychogeographer
• London Cross - A straight line walk across London
• Brighton Cross - A straight line walk across Brighton
• Psychographs - definition
• In Search for psychographs
• / Urbansquares Initiative

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Will Self
Born	William Woodard Self (1961-09-26) 26 September 1961 (age 50) London, England, UK
Occupation	Journalist, novelist
Nationality	English
Citizenship	British
Education	Bachelor of Arts
Alma mater	Exeter College, Oxford
Period	1991–present
Genres	Satire
Notable work(s)	The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, Cock and Bull
Spouse(s)	Kate Chancellor (1989–1997) Deborah Orr (1997–present)
Influences Lewis Carroll,[1] Jonathan Swift,[2] J. G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs, Alasdair Gray, Hunter S. Thompson, Martin Amis, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Heller, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Mikhail Bulgakov
www.will-self.com

William Woodard "Will" Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English journalist, novelist and short story writer. His fictional style is known for being satirical, grotesque, and fantastical. He is a prolific commentator on contemporary British life, with regular appearances on Newsnight and Question Time. He has also appeared on the comedy panel show Have I Got News for You, though he has since declared that he will not make any further appearances on the show.^[3]

Early life[link]

Self was raised, in his words, in "an effortlessly dull" North London suburb (East Finchley, although he sometimes lays claim to Hampstead Garden Suburb) by "intellectually snobbish parents". His father was Peter Self, Professor of Public Administration at the London School of Economics and Professor of Urban Research at the Australian National University, and his mother a Jewish American immigrant who worked as a publisher's assistant.^[4][5] Through his father, Self is a descendant of minister Nathaniel Woodard.^[6] Despite the intellectual encouragement given by his parents, Self was an emotionally confused and self-destructive child, harming himself with cigarette ends and knives before getting into drugs in his teenage years.^[7] His parents separated when he was 9, and divorced when he was 18.^[8]

Self was a voracious reader from a young age. At ten an interest in science fiction grew, with notable works such as Frank Herbert's Dune, J. G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick reflecting the precociousness of Self's reading. Into his teenage years, Self claimed to have been "overawed by the canon", stifling his ability to express himself. Nevertheless, Self's dabbling with illegal drugs grew in step with his prolific reading.

Self was addicted to heroin, as well as many other drugs, in the past, but has abstained, except for caffeine and nicotine since 1998.^[9]

Of Self's background Nick Rennison has written that he:

is sometimes presented as a bad-boy outsider, writing, like the Americans William S Burroughs and Hubert Selby Jr, about sex, drugs and violence in a very direct way. Yet he is not some class warrior storming the citadels of the literary establishment from the outside, but an Oxford educated, middle-class metropolitan who, despite his protestations to the contrary in interviews, is about as much at the heart of the establishment as you can get, a place he has occupied almost from the start of his career.^[10]

Education[link]

Self attended University College School, an independent school for boys in Hampstead in North London, with Hugh Dennis where they played rugby together.^[11] He later attended Christ's College, Finchley of which his memories are "fairly hazy", followed by Exeter College at Oxford, where he read philosophy, politics and economics.^[12]

His reasons for not studying English literature were discussed by Self in an interview with The Guardian newspaper:

I [had] a pretty thorough grounding in the canon, but I certainly didn't want to be involved with criticism. Even then it seemed inimical to what it was to be a writer, which is what I really wanted to be.^[13]

Career[link]

After graduating from Oxford, Self worked for the Greater London Council in a role that included road sweeping.^[12] He then pursued a career as a cartoonist for the New Statesman and other publications and as a stand-up comedian.^[12] He has made many appearances on British television, notably as a panelist on Have I Got News for You, as a regular on Shooting Stars and Grumpy Old Men, a guest appearance on Satisfied Fool and an episode of Room 101. In December 2008, November 2009, March 2010, January 2011, and most recently March 2012 Self appeared on the BBC's Question Time. He gained a degree of infamy in 1997 when he was sent by the British broadsheet The Observer to cover the electoral campaign of John Major, and was subsequently fired from the newspaper after taking heroin on the Prime Minister's jet.^[13] At the time, he claimed "I'm a hack who gets hired because I do drugs".^[14]

Since 2009 Self has written two alternating fortnightly columns for the New Statesman. Madness of Crowds is a wry look at strange social phenomena and group behaviour, and in Real Meals he visits "ordinary" high street food outlets. He has described himself as a modern flâneur.^[15]

In February 2012 it was revealed that Self has been appointed Professor of Contemporary Thought at Brunel University. He will take up the post in March.^[16]

Literary style[link]

According to M. Hunter Hayes, Self has given his reason for writing as follows: "I don't write fiction for people to identify with and I don't write a picture of the world they can recognise. I write to astonish people."^[17]

Self writes much of his fiction with references and allusions to modern culture (both high and low)^{[citation needed]}. The influences on his fiction mentioned most frequently include J.G. Ballard whom he considers "a great mentor", William Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson. He has cited^{[citation needed]} such diverse writers as Jonathan Swift, Alasdair Gray, Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll, Joseph Heller and Louis-Ferdinand Celine^[18] as formative influences on his writing style. Martin Amis is often mentioned alongside Self^{[citation needed]}; Self went to interview him, but the writers, who are known to respect each other's work, ended up having more of a discussion about their work and lives.^[19]

Zack Busner is a recurring character in the fiction of Will Self, appearing in the short story collections The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Grey Area, Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe, as well as in the novels Great Apes and The Book of Dave. Busner is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practising in London, and is prone to self-promotion at the expense of his patients. He is often the antagonist of the stories he appears in, although not always with villainous intent.

Personal life[link]

Self has been married twice. He was married to Katherine (Kate) Sylvia Chancellor, from 1989 to 1997. Kate is a daughter of John Chancellor^[20] and his first wife Hon. (Mary) Alice Joliffe (herself daughter of William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton and a great-granddaughter of H. H. Asquith, British Prime Minister in the early 20th century). Kate is also the elder sister of actress Anna Chancellor, and the niece of journalist Alexander Chancellor. Together they have two children, a son Alexis and a daughter Madeleine.

In 1997, Self married Deborah Jane Orr,^[21] a journalist, with whom he has two sons called Ivan and Luther. His brother is the author and journalist Jonathan Self.

He currently lives in Stockwell, South London,^[19] and has written about hikes he has taken around the city, of distances up to 100 miles. In December 2006, he walked 26 miles from his home in South London to Heathrow Airport. Upon arriving in the United States, he walked a further 20 miles from Kennedy Airport to the Crowne Plaza in Manhattan.^[9]

Works[link]

Fiction[link]

• Cock and Bull (1992) — the stories of a man and a woman who develop sexual organs of the opposite sex.
• My Idea of Fun (1993) — a lonely boy grows up just outside Brighton in a caravan park with his over-sexual mother and Mr Broadhurst who takes the boy on a disturbing and often violent journey.
• Great Apes (1997) — a man wakes up in a world where chimpanzees evolved to be the species with self-awareness, while humans are the equivalent of chimps in our world.
• How the Dead Live (2000) — an old lady dies, only to be moved to a London suburb where the dead have taken residence.
• Dorian, an Imitation (2002) — a modern take on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
• The Book of Dave (2006) — Set between 1987 and 2003, against a backdrop of Fathers for Justice protests, it is the story of a London cab driver who suffers a mental breakdown due to failed relationships, estrangement from his son and an obsession with The Knowledge. He writes a book of rantings which he buries, that is discovered 500 years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London.
• The Butt (2008) — a man flicks a cigarette butt from the balcony of his apartment while on holiday in a foreign land and soon finds himself enmeshed in the bureaucratic nightmare of native law.
• Walking to Hollywood (2010)

Short fiction

• The Quantity Theory of Insanity (short stories) 1991
• Grey Area (short stories) 1994
• "License to Hug", published in Esquire magazine, November 1995
• The Sweet Smell of Psychosis (illustrated novella) 1996
• Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo (short stories) 1998
• Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys (short stories) 1998
• Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe (short stories) 2004
• Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes (short stories) 2008
• The Undivided Self: Selected Stories (short stories) 2010

Non-fiction[link]

Self has also compiled several books of work from his newspaper and magazine columns which mix interviews with counter-culture figures, restaurant reviews and literary criticism.

• Junk Mail (1996)
• Perfidious Man (2000) photography by David M. Gamble
• Sore Sites (2000)
• Feeding Frenzy (2001)
• Psychogeography (2007)
• Psycho Too (2009)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker (2012)

Scheduled[link]

• Entirely Women TBA

Introductions and forewords[link]

• Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille (2000)
• Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban (2002)
• Junky by William S. Burroughs (2002)
• Genius: The Best of Warren Zevon (CD liner notes, 2002)
• Before the Poison by Marianne Faithfull (CD liner notes, 2004)
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007)
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (2010)
• The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller (2010)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (Visual Editions, 2010)
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (2010)
• Little People in the City: The street art of Slinkachu by Slinkachu (2008)

Narration[link]

• Narration on "5ml. Barrel" from the album Clear (1995) by Bomb the Bass

• Narration on "The Happy Detective" from the compilation album series Late Night Tales, by The Cinematic Orchestra, Groove Armada, Midlake and Snow Patrol

Television[link]

• The Minor Character — Self's short story was turned into a short film on Sky Arts which starred David Tennant as “Will”.

Radio[link]

• In Defence of Obscure Words^[22]

Awards[link]

• 1991: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Quantity Theory of Insanity
• 1998: Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review for Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys
• 2008: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction for "The Butt"

Self has been shortlisted three times for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award: in 2002 for Dorian, in 2004 for "Dr Mukti" in Dr Mukti and other tales of woe and in 2006 for The Book of Dave.

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Official Will Self site
• Will Self at the Internet Movie Database
• Will Self at Contemporary Writers
• Will Self on why he writes
• "The Principle", short fiction by Will Self
• 2010 Sebald Lecture audio from the British Centre for Literary Translation
• Will Self Profile from the New Statesman

Interviews[link]

• Guardian Books author page: Will Self
• Will Self article in Issue 08 of Tate Etc magazine
• Interview with 3:AM/Big Issue in the North
• A short interview: BBC
• Interview: Spike Magazine
• Salon interview (audio)
• Self interview from the International Necronautical Society
• Transcript of Self's encounter with Richard Littlejohn interviewed on Radio Five Live by Nicky Campbell