That's interesting, John. Thank you.
I know that
Debord, and the Situationists and psychogeography were hugely influenced by Rimbaud, although I don't know Rimbaud's work well.
So, I'm reading the poem as part of the precursor to the narrative of the Situationists, who, in my reading, were explicitly looking for some kind of difference (to capitalism) in their explorations of cities?
Sarah-Jane