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It's a bit like tourism. You travel to see the places which get destroyed by you being there...
by zorked 10y ago
It's a bit like tourism. You travel to see the places which get destroyed by you being there...
- personlurking 10y agoAnd if we take the tourism bit a bit further, the tourist's search for the authentic ends up with companies ready and willing to offer a back door into local culture, creating an impression of authenticity for a tourist audience (often called "staged authenticity" in tourism studies). This could be compared a bit to gentrification, in which I am reminded of Gertrude Stein's phrase "there is no there there" as well as, albiet more distantly, Marc Auge's concept of nonplaces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein#.22There_is_no_there_there.22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein#.22There_is_no_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_place