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Flâneur: But who exactly is the flâneur, what does he do? The flâneur is a middle class, bourgeois man who strolls through 19th Century Parisian streets, preferably in places with big crowds and 'things' to see; for example shopping arcades that began to appear in Paris at around 1850. The flâneur is a man of the crowd; he observes people, things and happenings. He is always searching for the Other, the things which will occupy his gaze and thus complete his otherwise incomplete identity. His gaze of objects satisfies his desire; it provides the meaning to his life. The flâneur has a special relationship with two particular types of objects: people and commodities. He turns both into a fetish. He observes them, he dives into them; he is the spectator of the Other.