Where's Spot? (original) (raw)
Second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Language technologies 2001 - NAACL '01, 2001
This is the place:'putting the past on the map
Journal of Historical Geography
All events noticed in the historical record necessarily occurred—if they occurred at all—in a specific time and place. Although perhaps more interested in the first of these, historians and others have also attempted to localize these events as far as possible. Using evidence from the written ...
Tourist Studies, 2002
The binary opposition of authenticity and artificiality, complete with a narrative of artifice’s conquest of the authentic, haunts much of Tourism Studies. Tourists, as modern figures, seek the authentic in order to escape from their own world, increasingly dictated by simulacra, or the Post-Tourist, as postmodern figure, revels in the consumption of sign worlds, delighting in the buoyancy of unanchored referents. Continuing this trajectory leaves us, and the tourist, with nowhere to go. The Manhattan TV Tour, a tour of New York City according to television locations, suggests another relationship between these conflicted poles. Rather than offering a simulated, seamless entry into the fictive, the tour drags representational, cultural and historical files into each site and thus performs the spatial incongruities (‘bloopers’) of each site. This performance requires a constant negotiation of space for the tourist, a negotiation not entirely unlike that demanded in the very act of wa...