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The ideals of coastal travel are discussed through the symbolism of 39 40 Subversion, Sexuality and the Virtual Self the Mediterranean as apparent in all the spaces looked at for this text, after which they are analysed utilising Gray’s (1970) motivations of ‘wanderlust’ and ‘sunlust’. Firstly, Apollo and Greek Gold are framed as spaces of wanderlust, specifically assessing notions of authenticity and inauthenticity which draw upon the contradictions of history and mythology, as well as the idea of liminal experience through ritualised engagement and participation in the mythological narrative of the spaces.
Prior to the work of theorist Henri Lefebvre and other Marxist geographers of the twentieth century, space was considered more or less an objective entity, an apolitical and ahistorical element of the universe. In drawing upon Marxism, Lefebvre and his contemporaries challenged this idea, and instead postulated that space was in fact subjective with far-reaching social, cultural, historical and political ramifications. Marxist geography ‘revolved around the need to recapture social control over the production of space from an expansive capitalism and an equally expansive and instrumentalist capitalist state’ (Soja 1989, p.
Whilst initially cynical about such grandiose notions, lived experience through an SL avatar both illuminates and extends the static imagining of the body and space as natural, as closed, and as fixed in its meanings. Even in imagining and creating utopian spaces, the spaces and our bodies within these spaces are written with prescribed meaning. It is not as if we can start with a blank slate and envisage cultures completely detached from our physical present – every space becomes an extension of a pre-existing one.