The study approaches the concept of space in relation to an interpretation of
the cultural tourist, at the intersection of the matrix geo-theories, embracing the
abandonment of the notion of place and re-discussing the cognitive, aesthetic and moral
spaces. This broad enterprise begins with a philosophical repeated conquest of the city
in sacred and unhallowed terms. Often it is a city for the others, governed
metaphorically by an impure approach exploring a culture of consumption, globalization,
massification, simulacra, etc. While the city struggles to maintain sociability, it faces the
global “de-socializing” effect of postmodernity, which influences each potential social
space. Anyway, the tourist is an extraterritorial being, too, and lives that as a privilege,
enjoying the independence as a right (freedom of choice). Culturally, the tourist travels
through landscapes / images and discourses / vocables. The maps - cognitive and
linguistic - guiding and misguiding the tourist are subject to (frequent) adjustment.
Paradoxically, it is the alterity that brings the ironist traveller “safely” to herself (as a
feminine metaphor), although the traveller is ”caught” by imagery, transcriptions and
imprints. This emphasizes the travelling as sheer incommunicability. „Each image /
place / vocable wants something from you” and the distance of the tourist from things,
places and images triggers a cultural effort.