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Flaneur (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a form of cultural archaeology that mines through the masking facades of capital, a slicing of 'strata' to recover submerged pasts.

The Flaneur (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠representative of a mode of perceiving/walking/writing that exposes the masking mechanisms of capital... it represents a kind of 'ideleness' that demonstrates against the division of labor.

The Flaneur (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the alienated romantic fascinated by all that horrifies his gaze. As a vocational idler resisting the work ethic that drives capital. As a suspect he is delinquent from conventional social responsibility... as a detective he treats urbanism as riddle and crime. As a journalist he bears witness... as nostalgist, he is the last incarnation of the sandwich-man.

The Flaneur (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the strolling aimless urban drifter and consumer 'taking in the story of things'. He is a militant radical whose idleness is opposed to capitalist productivity.

The Flaneur (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a type for whom , around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades, as they liked to have the turtles set the pace for them.

The Flaneur's (n.) leisurely ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠appearance and personality is his protest against the division of labour which makes people into specialists and their industriousness.

The Flaneur (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in contrast to the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, the man who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego the life of the gentleman of leisure.