Okno z widokiem na dzikość. O glamourze podróży

Abstract

Travel is an integral part of human life. However, it is most often an ambivalent matter – on the one hand it allows to gain something, on the other – as it is associated with leaving your comfort-zone, it exposes you to potential danger, or at least inconvenience, of contact with material reality. Travelers used to acquire the status of odd, yet glamorous people. The experience of orient, exoticism and contact with the Other made historic voyagers image float between magic and real realms. What travel patterns can we observe in the early twenty-first century? How does glamour of travel boost our status (especially in social media)? What are contemporary uses of travel selfies. Is glamping a new tool in „aestheticization of everyday life”? The essay analyses these relations between auto-creation in social media and travel. It also seeks for answers to above questions.