For those who believe the aesthetic experience is an intellectual and sensitive exchange, for whom the communication between the piece of art and the viewer should be intimate and personal, the expression «cultural tourism» is almost an oxymoron. Within the «must-see» museums is reproduced on a small scale what usually happens on an urban scale: the tourist goes through the corridors as transit zones to get in front of a «required selfie» masterpiece, and once […]
Para aquellos que entienden la experiencia estética como un intercambio intelectual y sensitivo, para quienes la comunicación entre la obra y el espectador debería ser íntima y personal, la expresión “turismo cultural” suena casi como un oxímoron . Dentro de los museos “de visita obligada” se reproduce a pequeña escala lo que sucede a escala urbana, que el turista recorre los pasillos como vías de tránsito para llegar ante esas obras de “selfie obligado”, y […]
Those who ask for money in exchange for sexual services are defined as «prostitutes», an illegitimate or illegal status, while those who pay for sex are rarely differentiated from the male population in general (Gail Pheterson, The prostitution prism) Virginie Despentes, in King Kong Theory, rescues this fragment of Pheterson’s book to reflect on the cultural construction of stigmatized femininity. The clients constitute a varied population (in terms of social extraction, age, motivations…), while whores […]
