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I'm currently traveling around Asia for a vacation, and am, as always, in awe at the frenzied crowds that have to take a picture of everything they find on Tripadvisor, and of the various different types of Real Travelers who live in _apparent_ opposition to that, but are obvious in some relation to those same forces.
Are there any books that talk about modern leisure? I read recently The Technological Society by Ellul who mentioned briefly modern leisure being a system of increasing efficiency to offset the need for the individual to become increasingly subjugated by technique, which I plan to re-read. The landmark work in the area seems to be Theory of the Leisure class, which I'm slowly slogging through. Also copped Leisure: The Basis of Culture, and am naturally re-reading Society of the Spectacle as well.
Cheers
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>>9401006
dfw's essay on cruising "a supposedly fun thing ill never do again" touches on this quite a bit.
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>>9401014
Ah yes, I will have to reread that one! What were his aesthetic reservations against the cruise life, anyway? I myself always found them to be a bit strange, though to be honest, I've never been on one.
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>>9401014
This
Also:
Marxist
Dialectic of Englightenment - A&H
Art in the age of Mechanical Reproduction - W. Benjamin
Ways of Seeing - John Berger
Conservative
Modern Culture - Roger Scruton
The Sacred Wood - T.S. Eliot
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>>9401075
p.s. Also, DFW's essay E Unibus Plurum.
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>>9401075
cheers anon, will add those to my list
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>>9401060
not sure about "aesthetic reservations" but he seemed concerned that cruises turned people into grouchy entitled jerks for whom even extreme luxury was not enough.
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