psychogeophysics

noun

The branch of psychogeography pertaining to geophysics.

Scrabble 37

Meanings

nounpsychogeophysics (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe branch of psychogeography pertaining to geophysics.

    In the view of psychogeophysics, what is ignored are the wider geological contexts in which habitual life can even start to be structured:

    2015, Jussi Parikka, A Geology of Media
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    Practitioners are continually reworking psychogeography and renaming it to suit their requirements and to differentiate what they do from each other. These nuances are very important to psychogeographers (psychogeophysics and cryptoforestry, to provide just two examples).

    2015, Tina Richardson, “Introduction: A Wander Through the Scene of British Urban Walking”, in Tina Richardson, editor, Walking Inside Out: Contemporary British Psychogeography, page 18

    In this paper, I focus on fieldwork undertaken in Bangka Island and re-examine the materiality of tin and its complex entanglement with humans through psychogeophysics.

    2019, Riar Rizaldi, “The Psychogeophysics of Bangka Island: On Tin, Mining, and Materiality”, in Transformations, number 33

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