Marco D’Eramo is an Italian journalist and social theorist. He worked at the newspaper il manifesto for over thirty years. He writes for New Left Review, MicroMega and the Berlin daily Die Tageszeitung. His books include The Pig and the Skyscraper, which has been translated into several languages.
A sophisticated, engaging, clever book - Sabine Peters, Berliner Zeitung Provocative and entertaining - Andrea Dernbach, Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin A work of intelligence and wit: the history and phenomenology of the tourist, from Hegel to Tripadvisor - La Repubblica Accumulates surprising and unsettling data, interpretations and testimonies, putting certainties we take for granted into crisis: the distinction between material and immaterial values, between commodities and fetishes, between modernity and post-modernity - Giuliano Milani, Internazionale, Rome