Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:26:07 +0000
To: avant-garde-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org
From: Alastair Dickson <adickson-AT-stirmargrev.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [a-g] tourist


Steven Snell <04048675-AT-brookes.ac.uk> wrote
>A tourist is one who comes to visit your city; what are you (as in noun) in 
>that city? This is not to suggest the opposite of tourist, a hermit perhaps, 
>but one who is surrounded by tourists in his or her city -- we arn't all 
>just travel guides! :)
>
Linking this back to what I was asking last weekend about the
geographical and class locations of the avant-garde, here is an extract
from Christopher Lasch's "The Revolt of the Elites":
"The new elites, which include not only corporate managers but all those
professions that produce and manipulate information - the lifeblood of
the global market - are far more cosmopolitan, or at least more restless
and migratory, than their predecessors... The new elites are at home
only in transit, en route to a high-level conference, to the grand
opening of a new franchise, to an international film festival or to an
undiscovered resort. Theirs is essentially a tourist's view of the world
- not a perspective likely to encourage a passionate devotion to
democracy".
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