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Despite appearances, the everyday world already knows some utopias. Tourism is one of these. The tourist is the one who is able to imagine the whole of the planet as places of transition. This utopia can be judged in two different ways. Either one considers that this is the final stage of the consumer society, you are sold movement, displacement, with some sun or sand to boot. Individuals buy their capacity to move and one is therefore at the limit of the system. According to the utopian perspective, the individual who moves around, who is unattached or, more precisely, who plays with attachments, free to choose these bonds, seems to me to have a highly commendable value. Quite the opposite of solitude then, a freedom of choice that no longer roots itself in identity, a given culture.

– Marc Augé - interview with the e-zine atopia (2005)

Vía: [New Economics of Tourism blog]

Tourism -human circulation considered as consumption- is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

– Guy Debord (The Society of the Spectacle, 1967)

Vía: [bagatelas blog]

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[exhibition : All-Inclusive. A Tourist World]

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