ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to follow a two-fold methodology; primarily, it tries to observe how the act of flânerie which was something highly popular in the second half of the nineteenth century, till the fin-de-siecle, when it reached a veritable high point with modernity, mutated itself into the more phenomenological activity of psychogeography. What we aim to argue is the immateriality of the flâneur figure with the rise of perceiving the city as a text, made up of signs. As a corollary to this argument, we would also try and observe as to how certain urban spaces act as heterotopic unit, however heterochronic, in terms of their different signification with other times. Borrowing on newer literary textual representations of the city in works like the Ishq Mein Shahar Hona of NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar and the graphic representation of “Dilli” in Sarnath Banerjee’s graphic novel The Corridor, the chapter would make a sojourn towards implicating the city within the marginal peripatetic subjectivities of the city.
