One way in which perception has been used to reorient individuals was through détournement. A term coined by the French Situationists of the 1950’s and 1960’s, referring to the reappropriation of something for the purpose of giving it new meaning. The Situationists often used it to create new ways of looking at maps, removing unnecessary context and projecting it through seemingly random and individual experiences. While discussed in the theoretical framework in the following chapter, détournement is more frequently substituted with queerness in the following chapters due to their similarities. This way of viewing things differently is not something that is taught at the primary or secondary level of education as frequently as it should be. Born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, I attended a private
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Figure 1.3 Field of Vision, Modern (Gay) Art Gallery. Image by The Queer Architect, Herbert Bayer and Stephan Quickmann. 1930. Werkbund Exhibition, Paris.
