In the wake of globalization cultural forms of expression have become increasingly detached
from their places of origin circulating in a hyper-domain of culture where there is no real
difference anymore between indigenous and foreign near and far the familiar and the exotic.
Heterogeneous cultural contents are brought together side by side like the fusion food that
makes free use of all that the hypercultural pool of spices ingredients and ways of preparing
food has to offer. Culture is becoming un-bound un-restricted un-ravelled: a hyperculture. It
is a profoundly rhizomatic culture of intense hybridization fusion and co-appropriation. Today
we have all become hypercultural tourists even in our 'own' culture to which we do not even
belong anymore. Hypercultural tourists travel in the hyperspace of events a space of cultural
sightseeing. They experience culture as cul-tour. Drawing on thinkers from Hegel and Heidegger
to Bauman and Homi Bhabha to examine the characteristics of our contemporary hyperculture Han
poses the question: should we welcome the human of the future as the hypercultural tourist
smiling serenely or should we aspire to a different way of being in the world?
