The World in a Selfie

The World in a Selfie
Author :
Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781788731102
ISBN-13 : 1788731107
Rating : 4/5 (107 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The World in a Selfie by : Marco D'Eramo

Download or read book The World in a Selfie written by Marco D'Eramo and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


The World in a Selfie Related Books

The World in a Selfie
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Marco D'Eramo
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-30 - Publisher: Verso Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 live
The World in a Selfie
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Marco D'Eramo
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-16 - Publisher: Verso Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 live
The Psychology of the Selfie
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Barrie Gunter
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-01 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Psychology of the Selfie provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of research on the significance of selfies, offering insights into the topic from a
How to See the World
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Nicholas Mirzoeff
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-12 - Publisher: Basic Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Every two minutes, Americans alone take more photographs than were printed in the entire nineteenth century; every minute, people from around the world upload o
The Selfie Generation
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Alicia Eler
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-07 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Whether it's Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactio