Rethinking the City

Both of Sadler and McDonough talked about how society is being reflected in the pieces for situationists; however, Saddler focused more on the psychogeography effects, while McDonough focused on the situationist outlook of the urban environment by using The Naked City by Guy Dubor as the example. Sadler provides better background information of situationist by how the Parisians were affected by their environment spiritually and physically. Sadler names the people “drifters”, who drift away from the traditional view of the city, which developed a new way to interpret the city. I think McDonough's use of “derive” means the same thing. Sadler explains the meaning behind The Naked City, while McDonough just used it to reject the traditional geographic map. The Naked City is a very radical movement for Sadler. However, both of them do agree on the point that the Parisians are still very blurry. I think this article is easier to understand than McDonough's article. Part of it is because I believe McDonough used too much technical terms, maybe he was writing for scholars or people with similar background of situationist. Still, I don't really understand the true point of situationist. What can they really do to change the soceity? Also, if, according to Sadler, the drifters were supposed to be free, why would the Naked City have all the arrows pointing out the directions?