The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry Into the Tourist Age by D'Eramo, Marco

The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry Into the Tourist Age

A spirited critique of the cultural politics of the tourist age. Or, why we are all tourists...
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Author: Marco D'Eramo
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Language: English
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The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry Into the Tourist Age by D'Eramo, Marco

The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry Into the Tourist Age

$71.55

The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry Into the Tourist Age

$71.55
Author: Marco D'Eramo
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A spirited critique of the cultural politics of the tourist age. Or, why we are all tourists who hate tourists

We've 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 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 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.

Author: Marco D'Eramo
Publisher: Verso
Published: 03/16/2021
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781788731072


Review Citation(s):
Foreword 12/26/2020
Shelf Awareness 03/16/2021

About the Author
Marco d'Eramo 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: Chicago, A History of Our Future, which has been translated into several languages. He lives in Rome.

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