The city as the dialectical image of post-critical psychogeographic truth: An immersive awakening to the historical blueprint of educational pursuits

This essay, along with the accompanying set of diagrammatic images, documents a psychogeographic educational rhythm. This Benjaminian process of contextual self-reflection builds on the scholarship of the philosopher Tyson Lewis , who presents Walter Benjamin's educational philosophy as an intermittent rhythm of immersive awakening within historical context. Having spent most of my life in an academic setting, I explore my curricular history in search of the dialectical images that hold the truth of my educational past in this particular moment in time. Awakening from my immersion, I reconstitute the image of a city where communication is not merely a means but the very goal of academic pursuit. Flânering through the streets of my memory, I reflect on the suddenness of encounters—despite difference—arriving at the post-critical meaning of my psychogeographic truth.