flaneursare cool. they’re people after my owwn heart. they were men who, independently wealthy and seemingly having nothing better to do, strolled around cities in the early part of the ninteenth century, observing life, writing and ‘botanising on the asphalt’. Thats all they did. they strolled here and there, observing a culture. writers like walter benjamin haave suggested they symbolise the advent of modernity.

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