dérive

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dérive

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Borrowed from French dérive (“drift”).

noun dérives

A revolutionary strategy proposed in 1956 by Guy Debord: a mode of experimental behaviour linked to the conditions of urban society, in which participants drop their everyday relations and enter into spontaneous encounters and interactions. Thus, a kind of dérive for the network: a process of psychogeography intended to discover not some reflection of my own pathology, but that of a globalised, digital collective.

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"dérive." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/d%C3%A9rive.

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@misc{de_rive_2026,
  title = {dérive},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/d%C3%A9rive},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}