An essential bottom-up thinking approach, ragpicking occupies a lot of my time, thinking and writing.
This is the gait of the poet who roams the city in search of rhyme-booty; it is also the gait of the ragpicker, who is obliged to come to a halt every few moments to gather up the refuse he encounters. (Benjamin 2003a, p.48)
Benjamin, Walter (2003a) ‘The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire,’ Selected writings, Volume 4 1938-1940, ed. Michael W Jennings, trans. Harry Zohn, Cambridge and London: Belknap Press, pp. 3-92.