This paper provides a methodology for critiquing dominant discourses as they pertain to spatial representation. Institutions and organisations offer up an idealogical narrative about themselves that represents how they wish to be portrayed. This discourse often masks other, more subordinate, stories that manifest in a heterogeneity that might be counter to the dominant voice. While there may be a number of techniques available to discover the "not-said" (Foucault), often a practical-performative approach to the concrete space in which an organisation operates is not taken up in critical theory. I have developed schizocartography as a way to provide an archival, theoretical and psychogeographical examination of the manifest terrain as it appears in its representation of specific organisations operating under neoliberalism. Developed from Félix Guattari's term “schizoanalytic cartography”, it enables alternative existential modes for individuals in order to challenge dominant representations and power structures. Providing an opportunity for multiple ways of operating in space and reading the environment, it critiques the conventional ways of viewing, interpreting and mapping space, while at the same time responding to the aesthetic of these spaces.

1. Formulating Systems of Affect
Developing a methodology for interrogating and
responding to the dominant aesthetic
Tina Richardson
University of Leeds
The London Conference in Critical Thought 2012

2. University Values
"The University's values are an integral part of our
strategy and guide our decisions and how we work
together."

3. Schizocartography
Schizocartography offers a method of cartography that
questions dominant power structures and at the same
time enables subjective voices to appear from
underlying postmodern topography. It is the process and
output of a psychogeography of particular spaces that
have been co-opted by various capitalist-oriented
operations, routines or procedures. It attempts to reveal
the aesthetic and ideological contradictions that appear
in urban space while simultaneously reclaiming the
subjectivity of individuals by enabling new modes of
creative expression. Schizocartography challenges anti-
production, the homogenizing character of overriding
forms that work towards silencing heterogeneous
voices.

4. A schizophrenic out for a walk...
psychogeography
research and
urban
archival
walking
schizoanalytic investigation
cartography
(Guattari)
'Marxist' theoretical
output critique analysis
“line of flight”
Deleuze and Guattari

5. University of Leeds

6. Aerial View of Campus

7. Cemetery Timeline
1835: On July 23rd the new cemetery was officially
opened by architect John Clark
1922: Suggested acquisition of cemetery by the
university
1930s Graveyard nearly full, some graves neglected
1947: University bursar re-opens question of cemetery
acquisition
1958-1963 Cemetery closed and landscaped and
original name was reverted: St George's Field
1965: Local opposition to University of Leeds Bill, re:
cemetery development
1969: St George's Field completed

8. Chapel and Undercroft

9. Entering the Undercroft

10. Traversing the Cemetery

11. Sculpture by Charlotte Deponeo

12. Phoenix Drawing

13. Schizocartography works by...

Showing that the act of physically exploring spaces
reveals information not available elsewhere

Highlighting discrepancies between what the
institution officially says about itself and its socio-
historical past as it pertains to capital accumulation

Allowing minority voices to be revealed from the
postmodern terrain...

...enabling the potential for an alternative history to
be written
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Encouraging the possibility of a re-appropriation of
these spaces

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