DETOUR, FLÂNERIE AND LIMINALITY IN THE TRAVELER'S EXPERIENCE

Abstract

This article characterizes the traveler's experience beyond the mere origin-destination displacement, based on the notion of traveler-flâneur and the practice of microflânerie. We argue that microflânerie interrupts the flow of everyday experience, opening other spaces of rest, refuge and play, in which the subject can transform himself. Making an experience is a micropolitical operation of reorientation of conduct, of reflexivity resulting from moments of elaboration and assembly between past, present and future. Our reflection shows that it is possible to articulate the heterotopic logics with the practices of microflanning, since the traveler can actively develop tactics that question strict functional logics based on the fabulation of juxtaposed spaces and times. The aesthetic experience of the traveler-flâneur allows him to deviate from expectations by establishing an alternative way of understanding the world, himself and the intersubjective relationships built in the quest.