Basically, how I see it, situationism, situationist thought and so on, it's like the end of the 60s, it's very explosive, very end of world type writing and imaginings. All the foundational texts by the French crew are very hard to get into (this just me, others might have understood more than me) and the things that have travelled the most are the very pithy throwaway bits (like the two dick cowboys and the 'under the pavement, the beach'). Cos at its core it was about totally removing yourself from the spectacle of society and showing it for the capitalist fallacy illusion that it is, but taken to the logical extreme this turned into proper anti society actions such as those by red army in Germany and angry brigade in this country. And the rest just became recommodified into the culture machine, the best bits of which are punk things or tom vague zines.
So now I just feel wary about the whole scene I suppose, cos it's just another part of things, rather than anything with any actual bite.
In terms of walking specifically, their that Ng was about deconstructing the city, by not obeying it's lines and rules, or questioning it, which is all well and good, but I think the original idea was to do this in order to mount a serious critique of things, or at least show something, but what it's ended up as is people just having a bit of a jolly in order to get out of the house. And maybe stick up some stencil graffiti. So the edge is lost. I mean this is just my view of things. I feel like I've gone through the process myself, I'm not really criticising anyone or anything except myself.