Dasein. Being a tourist does not necessarily mean being physically on the move. Already at home, the hypercultural tourist is either somewhere else or on the go. It is not that we leave our houses as tourists in order to return later as natives. The hypercultural tourist is already a tourist when at home. Still here, he is already there. He never arrives at a final destination.
The Heidegger of Being and Time was already convinced that all interconnecting media level out differences and produce a ‘dictatorship of the “they”’. As he put it in Being and Time:
In utilizing public means of transport and in making use of information services such as the newspaper, every Other is like the next. This Being-with-one-another dissolves one’s own Dasein completely into the kind of Being of ‘the Others’, in such a way, indeed, that the Others, as distinguishable and explicit, vanish more and more.3
The idea that media may bring about a multiplication of forms of life and possibilities is alien to Heidegger. Because he feels uneasy about diversity, he would also not want to oppose the monotony of the ‘they’ with a plurality of projections of Dasein. Faced with a colourful patchwork society, he would invoke the ‘we’ of a community of fate. Heidegger’s philosophy of ‘dwelling’ and of the ‘site’ is ultimately an attempt to re-facticize Dasein.
Notes
1 1. Vilém Flusser, ‘Die Zeit bedenken’, in Lab: Jahrbuch für Künste und Apparate (2001/2), pp. 126–30.
2 2. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robertson, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1962, pp. 437 and 435.
3 3. Ibid., p. 164.
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