Ricerc@Sapienza

In this essay I argue that the use of the polarity principle as a heuristic tool can reveal embedded or structural continuities throughout the history of Indian civilization. To substantiate this hypothesis, I analyse how the polarity constituted by elements such as movement, nomadism, mobility, and homelessness, on the one

A visit to ruins often raised and still raises the emotion of silence and, therefore, the idea that ancient spaces implicate the possibility of reflection and abstraction from the noise of reality and contemporaneity. The present contribution specifically focuses on the silent descriptions of ancient ruins and the related emotions which travellers experience, pointing to the difference of descriptions of ancient places and cities – before they became ruins – made by the people living therein.

This article tries to clarify the contrast between the contemporary tourist figure and
the romantic traveler. From a conceptual and theoretical framework, it is our aim to
establish a critical apparatus to problematize the influence of new media in the experience of
travel nowadays, as a part of the Industry of Culture. From categories of analysis such as the
unexpected, the travel as a personal transformation or the authenticity, our essay deals with
a critical perspective of the hyperconnected tourist, specially through the smartphone, from