itourist?

“the flaneur is the travelling player. he carries his playing with him, wherever he goes. his game is a solitaire…His play is to make others play, to see others as players, to make the world a play. And in this play which he makes the world to be, he is in full control…In the dramas he imagines as he wanders, he is the sole mover, scriptwriter, director, discerning spectator and critic. To flaner is to play the game of playing; a meta play of sorts. This play is conscious of itself as play…Or one may say; the job of the flaneur is to rehearse the world as a theatre, life as a play”

Zygmunt Baumann, pp145-146, see ref. below.

see Melanie Manchot’s russia pictures (crowd shots)

“to be in control, foucault told us, is to see without being seen… being an actor in the play of crowd is to pretend that there are no spectators and that one is not a spectator oneself. the art the flaneur masters is that of seeing without being caught looking.’

Zygmunt Baumann, pp141, see ref. below