Rethinking the City

Comparing the two readings from Simon Sadler and Tom McDonough, I find more differences than there are similarities. Sadler’s vision about the situationist is much more broad than how McDonough viewed the situationist. In both articles, the author relied on analyzing The Naked City by Debord. Both articles touched on how space is seem by the situationist as an object that is something very involved in your social life. However, I think that Sadler’s chapter gave a clearer reasoning to why the situationist started to feel that way. Sadler wrote “psychogeography was playful, cheap, and populist, an artistic activity carried out in the everyday space of the street rather than in the conventional art spaces.” He explains the situationist as a group that is much less rigid and one-sided minded people as I got from the tone of the reading from McDonough. The concentrations between the two articles were also very different. Sadler’s chapter focuses more on talking about what the situationist meant or entailed when they were referring to psychogeography. McDonough wrote more like a situationist himself trying to convince readers about derive and trying to influence the reader’s view more the social environment.
Questions: what is meant when Sadler says that the situationist are responsive to the light changes in the fabric of Paris? What is the Corbusian vision he talks about at the beginning of the acticle?