http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/rimbaudiansystematicdisorganizationofthesenses Questions tagged with 'rimbaudiansystematicdisorganizationofthesenses' at Ask MetaFilter. Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:35:50 -0800 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:35:50 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/33953/how%2Dto%2Dfind%2Dan%2Dinvisible%2Dcity Help me find a city in which to lose myself. I'm looking for a non-North-American city/country in which to lose myself -- just streets or alleys with the right amount of disorientation and disconnect. Think of the red-lit alleys in Venice at 1am, or certain empty streets on a weekday night in New York, or Apgujung in Seoul, or even MG Road in Bangalore.<br> <br> I'm able to travel for a week, or less. This city has to have a deep night with a city full of people I don't know. This is as much your question as it is mine.<br> <br> I travel alone often, so cleanliness/comfortability/sanitary conditions/running water doesn't really matter -- all I want is the thick sense of giddy and disorientation. <br> <br> Like Calvino's Invisible Cities.<br> "Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places."<br> <br> Where would you go? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2006:site.33953 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:35:50 -0800 alone rimbaudiansystematicdisorganizationofthesenses travel suedehead