Hyperculture by Byung-Chul Han

Author:Byung-Chul Han [Han, Byung-Chul]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781509546183
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2022-01-09T18:30:00+00:00

Bauman’s tourists are romantic tourists who postulate a counter-world. They are still pilgrims. They are on their way towards a home, to a There, which, however, retreats into the ‘future tense’. Bauman adds that homesickness ‘is not the sole tourist’s sentiment’, that tourists also know the ‘fear of home-boundedness’, that is, ‘of being tied to a place’.10 But Bauman does not recognize an altogether different kind of tourist, that is, the form of existence of the hypercultural tourist, who, in contrast to the pilgrim tourist, knows of no difference between Here and There, who therefore does not live in the ‘future tense’ or in ‘future II’ but fully in the present tense, who fully inhabits the space of Being-Here. For Bauman, tourists are still pilgrims torn between the longing for the There and their fear of it. A hypercultural tourist knows neither longing nor fear.

Globalization does not simply mean that the There is connected with the Here. Rather, it creates a global Here by de-distancing and de-siting the There. This global Here cannot be grasped on the basis of the concepts of inter-, multi- or trans-culturality. Hypercultural tourists travel in the hyperspace of events, a space of cultural sightseeing. In this way, they experience culture as cul-tour.

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