ABSTRACT
True walking, the walking that divests itself of illusory telê (the plural of telos), is ever conscious of movement even as it goes nowhere. It goes around in circles, like all true thought. It lifts the veils of illusion from purposeful Apollonian actions and busy metropolitan lives. On the 16th of July 1840, Donaldson gave expert testimony to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Trafalgar Square and reflected on the plan to erect a memorial column in honour of Lord Nelson on the site. The Square, Donaldson pointed out, was: one of the finest in the world. Driver and Gilbert note that ‘London has, of course, long been a site of international political activism’ and that, It might therefore be concluded that London as a whole, like Trafalgar Square, is best thought of as a schizophrenic space, simultaneously ‘imperial’ and ‘anti-imperial'.
