"Sending Our Souls to Search the City
Drifting advances the progress of hedonism through the process of creating more life. By taking pleasure in the sensation of movement and simultaneously responding to the immediate impressions created by everything around you, you turn into a moment of poetry. This lyrical passage may take place in a space of a few yards - follow the nearby pedestrian alley between buildings, for example, not really knowing where it goes - but the mile-spanning vistas as just as likely to the Northwest Passage, as conduits out of the ordinary were called by the first psychogeographers.
Knowing, intuitively, that to form habits is to fail, you crisscross the smooth footsteps of the first hedonists drifting on the sandstone cliffs of what is now Libya. You recall from your youth how you instinctively sought pleasure and direct your present actions towards obtaining new pleasures. Your impressions are created by your immediate relations to everything around you, relations informed by the constant reminder that historical consciousness is the consciousness of everyday life. Why is it abstract or egotistical to recognize something of yourself in all the human endeavors that have come before you? A pleasurablly human response, indeed, the ultra-human response. You recognize the things around you as the cause of your impressions and you perceive the human touch in all these things. And then, at decisive moments, you possess the creations of your fellow humans and use them for your hedonistic ends, ends at odds with the current reproduction of daily life. You laugh at yourself that a hedonistic act is now a historical event because it's true."
From "A Psychogeographic Map into the Third Millennium" in The Arch Conspirator by Lee Bracken