Situationism

Simon Sadler's "Formulary for a New Urbanism:Rethinking the City" focused more on situationists and the way the viewed and created art while Tom McDonough's "Situationist Space" focused more on the Naked City while later mentioning one or two paragraphs on situationists. Sadler's piece was definitely more difficult to understand but it introduced situationism well through comparing and contrasting their thoughts and others such as surrealists and and the Architectural Review. While McDonough does briefly explain why situationists reject surrealists' ways of chance, Sadler goes into more detail about their drift and how they believed in balancing chance and planning. He also mentions that they were more attracted to the "troubled side of the picturesque-meditative, exotic, expressive" and their sense of unities of ambiance was expressed through the "constant play of contrasts". In McDonough's essay, he mainly compared situationist maps to traditional academic geography. He talked a lot about what psychogeographical maps represented, how they were created through social relationships, and these maps brought feeling and emotion to the viewer. Reading both these articles helps the overall understanding of the situationists approach to architecture and art.

Questions:

What does Sadler mean when he says that "the power of psychogeography" is both "fetishistic and militaristic"?

Is Sadler saying that sectors of the city has a different meaning for everyone therefore we can block the city into a perfect geographic map?