| | | It's a shame this thread hasn't seen more action. I think there's a great deal of theoretical writing around which is worth reading for the language as much as the theory. Here's something that I reckon fits the bill - Susan Stewart on the difference between journeys and excursions.
The Journey ... is an allegorical notion, one that suggests a linearity and series of correspondences, which link lived experiences to the natural world. In contrast, the excursion is an abstract and fictive notion; it emerges from the world of mechanized labor and mechanical reproduction. The excursion is a holiday from that labor, a deviation and superfluity of signification. While the journey encompasses lived experience, the excursion evades it, steps outside and escapes it. The excursion is a carnival mode, but an alienated one; its sense of return is manufactured out of resignation and necessity.
from On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection |
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