“The flaneur is the priest of the genius loci. This discreet passerby with his priesthood and his detective’s flair...But the dandified figure of the stroller was complemented in Benjamin by another, more subversive image: that of the vagabond who alone, criminal and exiled, possessed the marginal vision that transgressed boundaries and turned them into thresholds, a way of looking that engendered what Benjamin called the “peddling [colportage] of space.”

Anthony Vidler, Warped Space, p. 74