“Perhaps ‘the tourist’ was really an early postmodern figure, alienated but seeking fulfillment in his own alienation–nomadic, placeless, a kind of subjectivity without spirit, a ‘dead subject.’”
-Dean MacCannell
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“Perhaps ‘the tourist’ was really an early postmodern figure, alienated but seeking fulfillment in his own alienation–nomadic, placeless, a kind of subjectivity without spirit, a ‘dead subject.’”
-Dean MacCannell