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21/100Critics
44/100Scholars
Author:
Marco D'Eramo
Publisher:
Verso
Date:
March 16, 2021
An Italian journalist and social theorist considers tourism from a variety of angles: The most important industry of the century, tourism is an economic powerhouse while, at the same time, a burden on the architecture and topography of our cities. It also encapsulates the problem of modernity: the search for authenticity in a world of ersatz pleasures.
What The Reviewers Say
... a creative, philosophical study of travel.
Marco D'Eramo's thought-provoking The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry into the Tourist Age...is a thorough and often critical look at modern tourism through a variety of sociological lenses.
D’Eramo...brings into clearer focus the many confounding aspects of tourism: why we hate tourists and yet continue to travel, and why we divvy our leisure time into a structured regimen of sightseeing that resembles something like work.
The book, 'an inquiry into the tourist age,' is somewhat disjointed, moving distractedly at times from topic to topic and losing the thread in the philosophical weeds. But in its more focused moments, Selfie makes for a bracing, provocative examination of an all-too-human pastime.
