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Psychogeography and derive are two different things, and I doubt you could come up with a word that would combine them BOTH to Discordianism.

However, in a very real way I think one will lead to the other and vice versa, and both are necessary for Discordianism.

Unitary Urbanism is the name that combines them, from the Situationists which could be seen as pioneers of psychogeography and the derive.  Making up a new name might not be necessary, though I'd suggest something about urban exploration, interpretation and manipulation of the urban atmosphere (via meme bombs and/or other approach).

Yeah, I've become a "myspace friend" of his.  I found out about the GASMs in my search for games.  I already have a few flyers up here and there for my "work abolition" group and we've been gearing ourselves towards a discordian gamer/explorer approach for the past month.  We're still rough around the edges, but we're learning.

Yeah, its a work in progress with a small handful of friends to start with.  I hope to catch some early discordian eyes and maybe participation.  I'll try not to get too excited and reveal strategies until I've hatched them.  I'm glad I've got a place I can brag at now. It sometimes can be lonely without a community that shares awesomeness with each other.

My plans are based around the GASM to encourage people to call off of work and to network with other discordians.  So I hope to create various posterGASMs and other media/tactics revolving around the bureGASM.  For the actual day, perhaps a small stunt, like dressing up like businessmen and passing out ordinances, but that's not the focus.  That idea is off the top of my head, but it might be better to just use that as a tactic to promote the bureGASM as well.  I hope to find a way to gage success with this experiment, but if I could gage its success, its criteria would be based on creating a situation from the amount of people calling off of work.

I'm discussing the idea of "game" as pro-revolutionary praxis on another forum and I ran into the "Black Iron Prison" as a great example of what I was already aiming towards.  I'm still reading, but very impressed.

Has anyone heard of the Situationists?