To tour or to travel from place to place, especially for
pleasure. to travel among various places while fulfilling
engagements. The tour as introduced is the embodiment of
contemporary engagement with other systems of habit. It
has become an entity of absolute necessity. With prevailing
notions of the contemporary state of touring the historical
trajectory designates another semantical response. In old
english the designation of travail [travel synonym of tour]
meaning trouble, work, torment. Travail is a latin derivative
of tripalium a three-staked instrument of torture. This
becomes the primary causation of travel’s heroic conceptualization,
the third trajectory of tour.
“Despite the fluid mobility afforded by tele-technologies
[tele-scape] and the futility of mobility in a progressively
homogenized [and hegemonic] world tourism still accounts
for the single largest peaceful movement of people across
cultural boundaries in the history of the world.” [valene
smith, hosts and guests: the anthology of tourism (1977)
“It has been argued that conventional travel remains highly
valued precisely to counteract the effects of the technological
world.”
[diller and scofidio _FLESH]
The taxing is the “tour” as generated by various systems -
economic, consumption, social, and political. Taxing is of
modesty, it is the homeless. the homeless is the “tour” at
which the impoverished complacently mobilize for needed
substance in order for survival.
The leisure is the product of consumerism. it is the “tour”
conditioned by economical constraints. It is an embodiment of
contemporary conditions.