The Stories in Reserve series released its first volume earlier this month, and one of our Conversation and Skillshare presenters has a tour in this volume! Ricardo Miranda Zuniga presented the http://votemos.us/ project for last year’s Conflux Festival, and we’re excited to welcome him back to Conflux 2010.

Stories in Reserve are the Lonely Planets of the psychogeographic world. As their website puts is, “Places may be distinct spatial categories in our minds, but they are far from materially exclusive—their boundaries form overlapping volumes that share varying amounts of matter and history.”

It brings to mind a discussion I had with some friends a couple of years ago when they first moved to East 29th St. It was the inspiration of much discussion as to whether they lived in Murray Hill or in Kips Bay. Where did one place stop and the other begin? Unlike the border between, say, Brooklyn and Queens, the distinction is fuzzy and subjective. This is an audio guide to that fuzzier aspect of a place.

Zuniga’s guide is a walking tour of Tijuana, and looks at the nature of “transnational commerce.” While there’s a distinct (though some of the right wing would argue that it’s not distinct enough) border between the US and Mexico, what constitutes a “nation” is more than just land. There’s language and food and culture and a shared history that can’t (and shouldn’t) be contained to a certain physical area. To experience the psychogeographic aspect of this corner of the world, download Zuniga’s guide here.