The site makes it a spectical and 'no longer present'
Pollock
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'what could be more universally damning than a narcissistic selfie at a place notorious for genocide?'
Blackwood
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'Does anyone really need these pictures?' Should ban all phones/cameras
Horowitz
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Taking selfies is a way of refusing an experience 'by limiting the experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir'
Susan Sontag
4 of 13
Yolocaust, 2017
Shahak Shapira
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Definition of Dark Tourism - morbid travel zones that bring a kind of pleasure to the visitor - curiosity for knowledge/understanding, desire to respect the dead. Those who travel to sites of mass death/suffering, museums that focus on it
Blackwood
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How many visitors were there in 2001?
492,000
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How many visitors were there in 2016?
2,053,000
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'Tourist Auschwitz' threatens to trivialise, domesticate and jettison the past
Tim Cole
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First time visitor is able to get 'a deep sense of loss' and site is able to convey the horrors that occurred, despite tourism.
Michael Marrus
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The visitor coming at all is an act of commemoration and has 'affirmed a universal human gesture'
Webber
11 of 13
Tourism that has shaped the site may disrupt a 'sense of profound sadness or moral loneliness' which might otherwise have dominated the mood of the visitor
Webber
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Auschwitz 'gains meaning' and can 'teach better than any treatise or memorial how inhuman the Hitlerite regime was'
Primo Levi
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
'what could be more universally damning than a narcissistic selfie at a place notorious for genocide?'
Back
Blackwood
Card 3
Front
'Does anyone really need these pictures?' Should ban all phones/cameras
Back
Card 4
Front
Taking selfies is a way of refusing an experience 'by limiting the experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir'
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