the society of the spectacle
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Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption, a by-product of the circulation of commodities, is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. The economic organization of visits to different places is already in itself the guarantee of their equivalence. The same modernization that removed time from the voyage also removed from it the reality of space.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
[…] this volume is essentially a tourist’s glimpse into the manufactured idea of an idyllic space. kagablog readers know from guy debord’s “society of the spectacle” that “tourism, human circulation considered as consumption, a by-product of the circulation of commodities, is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal” […]
August 6th, 2007 at 3:08 am
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