The World in a Selfie An Inquiry into the Tourist Age

"The World in a Selfie offers a spirited critique of the cultural politics of a tourist age. Tourism is not just the most important industry of our century, generating huge waves of people and capital, calling forth a dedicated infrastructure, and upsetting and repurposing the architecture and topography of our cities. It also encapsulates the problem of modernity: the search for authenticity in a world of ersatz pleasures"--