The tourist is the autonomous modern subject at its logical end point of modernity: where the autonomy dimension of individual freedom triumphs over, and eclipses, the nomos element---the ties that bind together as a people, community or group.

The free tourist, as a spectator looking for the incredible experience at at spectacular vista, is free from any particular ties.They are free floating.

Gary Sauer-Thompson, Remarkable Rocks 2, Kangaroo Island, 2007

Being a tourist is the emptiest of all of modes of subjectivity --and the flattest soul. The world the tourist travels though is one of old (19th century) pioneering customs bankrupted by the new global mores of the 21st century, but re-floated by tourism as nostalgia and heritage.

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Posted by: Francis Xavier Holden | May 27, 2007 08:39 PM

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