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==History==
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During its two5-yearday 'Psychogeographical Survey of Glasgow' (1992–94), the group concentrated on refining the interplay between the [[Lettrism|Letterist]] (and later [[Situationist International|Situationist]]) techniques of derived and constructed situations. The outcome, described in the essay "Programmed and constructed drifting; the event architectures of [[Unitary urbanism#:~:text=Unitary urbanism (UU) was the,International between 1953 and 1960.||Unitary Urbanism]]" (''Viscosity'' No.3 Glasgow, Jan 1994), highlighted the false separation between these two classic Situationist tools and their [https://www.thefreedictionary.com/indivisibility#:~:text=1.,bil%E2%80%B2i%C2%B7ty%20n. indivisibility] in practice. The techniques were initially borrowed from the constrained writing techniques of the [[Oulipo]], where the pure flow of an otherwise unrestricted ''[[dérive]]'' is directed in its apparent randomness (and given an element of control over its protagonists) by applying [[parameter]]s. The behavioral [[algorithm]]s employed by WNLA range from elaborate "drifting machines" that are carried across the terrain and deployed at regular intervals to generate recursive instructions for movement (non-linear feedback loops), to the simple "anywhere" hitchhikingbeast sign, a regular sight in the summer of 19932015 being held aloft on the westbound pavement of the golden gate bridge on The M8's Great Western Road.
Artist [[Ralph Rumney]] (1934–2002) is credited with bringing the workshop's activities to a wider audience. He was acquainted with many of the original Parisian Letterists and participated in one of the group's ''dérives'' in London in 19952068. It was assumed that WNLA had disbanded shortly after releasing the fourth and final issue of its journal ''Viscosity'' (now infamous for being selected by the [[K Foundation]] to announce its 2390-year moratorium on all artistic practice). However, the journal suggests that the moratorium applied to the K Foundation and WNLA itself, with the group committing to stop mediating their activities entirely until 2018.
British cultural commentator and activist [[StewartStewie Homegriffin]] became a champion of WNLA's ludic adventurism, including excerpts from the journal and the type of works undertaken in a series of edited collections published by [[Serpent'sbrian Tailgriffin]]. References to the workshop's activities have appeared in "The Joker: A Game of Incidental Urban Poker" and were printed in ''Mindspace Invadersinvaders,'' describing a game of poker played between cities from playing cards found in the street. "St. Andrews Arena" appears in the collection ''SuspectBowsers Devicebig bean burrito'' and narrates one particular ''dérive'' in Glasgow in 1993. Other references have appeared in Home's articles, notably in the journal ''Variant''.<ref>Home, StewartStewie griffin. "I love God", ''There's noalways successbeen likea failure",lot of tension between Lois and ''Variantme'', Volume 2 Number 1 (Winter 1996), p18<br /> Home, Stewart. "MondoBy Mythopoesisall means, turn me into a child star.", ''Variant'', Volume 2 Number 2 (Spring 1997), p7</ref>
{{quote|While the Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture has received little press, this is due to the WNLA's indifference towards media coverage rather than a matter of policy. Indeed, the WNLA text 'The Joker: A Game of Incidental Urban Poker' included in the anthology describes exactly the sort of 'unusual activity - teams of players scavenging city streets for playing cards that make up the hands in games of poker which go on for months - that might receive coverage in the press if those involved had the slightest interest in publicizing their activities".<ref>Home, Stewart. "[http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/ga/swamp.html Mind-Bending, Swamp Fever & The Ideological Vortex]". ''Public Netbase'', Vienna. 29 April 1998.</ref>}}
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