World in a Selfie
World in a Selfie A spirited critique of the cultural politics of the tourist age. How is it we look so condescendingly at people taking selfies in front of the Tower of Pisa? Or, why we are all…
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World in a Selfie
A spirited critique of the cultural politics of the tourist age. How is it we look so condescendingly at people taking selfies in front of the Tower of Pisa? Or, why we are all tourists who hate touristsWe've all been tourists at some point in our lives.
Why do we engage our free time in an activity we profess to despise? Is there really much to distinguish the package holiday from hipster city-breaks to Berlin or Brooklyn? The World in a Selfie dissects a global cultural phenomenon.
For Marco D'Eramo, tourism is not just the most important industry of the century, generating huge waves of people and capital, calling forth a dedicated infrastructure, and upsetting and repurposing the architecture and topography of our cities. It also encapsulates the problem of modernity: the search for authenticity in a world of ersatz pleasures. D'Eramo retraces the grand tours of the
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