November 2007
13 posts
“Our spoons are one of our indispensable possessions here. To lose one’s spoon...”
– South: the story of Shackleton’s last, by Sir Ernest Shackleton (chapter5)
Icy Rescue as Seas Claim a Cruise Ship - New York... →
Tourists following in Shackleton’s wake. via Jessie
Watchtell your douche friends — objectsinspaceandtime
Fishaay and his megaphone rain wisdom down on the streets of Providence in support of Marcos and Taylor’s movement. Absolutely brilliant.
“The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has...”
– Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914), U.S. historian. The Image, ch. 3 (1961). via NYSH&TA
“The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the...”
– Max Lerner (b. 1902), U.S. author, columnist. repr. in The Unfinished Country, pt. 1 (1959). “Lo, the Poor Sightseer,” New York Post (Sept. 15, 1954) via NYSH&TA
“To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don’t...”
– Don Delillo, from James Axton, in The Names, ch. 3 (1982), via Mary-Jo
“The tourist certainly yearns for the authentic—and tourism fuels that desire. In...”
– Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, ‘Suit Case Studies: The Production of a National Past,’ p. 34
'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical... →
“Souvenirs are collected by individuals, by tourists, while sights are...”
– Dean MacCannell, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class, p. 42
"When I Actually Saw it for the First Time" - a... →
A visual interpretation of “The Ethnomethodology of Sightseers,” from The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class by Dean MacCannell using my photographs from Pisa as punctuation.
//For Anne West’s Thesis Writing Workshop, Fall 2007
Our movement through the world is comprised of a series of temporal transactions. Bound by time and space, our experience of place is fleeting and...