TY - ART
TI - Virtual Tourisms
AU - Megan Kendrick
AU - David Lopez
AB - In "Virtual Tourisms," history seems "elusive, presenting itself as an amalgamation of fragments and contrasting narratives that may never be grasped in their totality. For Kendrick, the hotel serves as an interpretive lens to examine the cultural imaginary of Los Angeles as seen from a variety of social class positions. Although not exactly the heterotopic space imagined by Foucault, hotels do seem to occupy a liminal position between myth and reality; a carved out social space that functions according to its own rules and internal economy. In <em>Virtual Tourisms</em>, the hotel also offers a concrete manifestation of abstract cultural ideals; a symptom of the collective unconscious of a particular age and geographic region." – Steve Anderson, <em>Vectors</em> Editor
C3 - Web
PY - 2012
LA - English
M3 - Hypermedia, Essay, Place-Based
UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/1599/0/0/
DB - The NEXT
Y2 - 2025-03-31
ER -