The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry into the Tourist Age - Couverture rigide

D'Eramo, Marco

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1788731077 ISBN 13 : 9781788731072

Editeur : Verso Books, 2021

Synopsis

Weve all been tourists at some point in our lives. How is it we look so condescendingly at people taking selfies in front of the Tower of Pisa? Is there really much to distinguish the package holiday from hipster city-breaks to Berlin or Brooklyn? Why do we engage our free time in an activity we profess to despise? The World in a Selfie dissects a global cultural phenomenon. For Marco DEramo, 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. DEramo retraces the grand tours of the first globetrotters from Francis Bacon and Samuel Johnson to Arthur de Gobineau and Mark Twain before assessing the cultural meaning of the beach holiday and the UNESCO-cide of major heritage sites. The tourist selfie will never look the same again.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marco DEramo is an Italian journalist and social theorist. He worked at the newspaper il manifesto for over thirty years. He writes for New Left Review, MicroMega and the Berlin daily Die Tageszeitung. His books include The Pig and the Skyscraper, which has been translated into several languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788731077
• ISBN 13: 9781788731072
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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