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However, within seven months Rumney had been 'amiably' expelled from the SI by Debord for allegedly "failing to hand in a psychogeography report about Venice on time". [1]
Rumney spent much of his life living as a wanderer, and was variously described as both a 'recluse' and a ' media whore ', seeing his existence as a 'permanent adventure and endless experiment'. He moved, as his friend Guy Atkins said, "between penury and almost absurd affluence. One visited him in a squalid room in LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri's Neal Street, in a house shared with near down-and-outs. Next, one would find him in Harry's Bar in Venice, or at a Max ErnstMax Ernst ( April 2, 1891 April 1, 1976) was a German painter. Max Ernst was born in Bruhl, Germany. In 1909, he enrolled in the University at Bonn to study philosophy but soon abandoned these courses to pursue his interest in art. In 1913 he met Guillaum opening in ParisEiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital and largest city of France. The city is built on an arc of the River Seine, and is thus divided into two parts: the Right Bank to the north and the smaller Left Bank to. He seemed to take poverty with more equanimity than riches."
A book about his life, The Map Is Not The Territory (Manchester University Press, BooksEnthsiast.com) was published in 2001.
See also The Consul by Rumney (Verso, BooksEnthsiast.com) published in 2002.
Ralph Rumney died of cancer at his home in Manosque, Provence, on March 6, 2002, aged 67.
An extensive interview with Rumney appears in Vague magazine, issue 22.