For all of postmodernism's local truths, it remains the nihilistic metaphysics of the spectacle. It's only now that we've reached the abyss of mediation that new paths appear. Of course they were always there, and actually involve a lot of archaic models. Travel plays a really important role in all this. It plays the opposite role of tourism, which nonetheless exists in a strange sort of dialog with travel, which goes along with travel at the same time and sometimes seems to actually become it.
Tourism is a kind of travel that deconstructs difference.
The kind of travel I'm talking about is to experience difference. Unlike tourism, which is the prolongation of imperialist colonialism, the kind of travel I propose is a prolongation of the heretical margin. Every once in a while tourists are converted into travelers. They notice that besides the image of otherness that they're paying for there is a reality of otherness that they fall in love with. They're attracted to it, even erotically, and they walk out the tour bus and into the world.