Escape from Non-Place: travelers that manage to see through modernity

Travel doesn’t equal tourism, especially today. Travel has a purpose and intention for self-discovery, whereas tourism focuses on the mere consumption of leisure. Are both distinguishable anymore?

In his book The Songlines, English travel writer Bruce Chatwin argues that language started as song, which to peoples capable of tapping into the remote past, like aboriginal Australians, language sang the creation of the world.

When we go about in the world, if we keep our senses and sensibility open, we could tap into the distant past via the people w…