Travel Influencers Revere Anthony Bourdain, Miss His Point

There’s a good chance you’ve seen it on your social media feeds for the last three months: everyone you’ve ever met in your entire life is getting out of town, out of the state, or out of the country. It’s what summer is for: Lay on a beach, hike an exotic canyon, swim with a dolphin, try and fail to surf for the first time. Travel and the culture surrounding it–namely its documentation on social media–is booming, and somewhere near the center of it all is a generation’s avatar as it aspires towards the “digital nomad” lifestyle that exploded in the wake of COVID isolation and the remote work boom: Anthony Bourdain. The late author and TV host has become the focus of what we’ll call “Bourdainposting,” a minor internet cottage industry subsiding itself on sharing the same two dozen-odd