Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology o- Marc Auge
Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology o- Marc Auge An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computers and cash…
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Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology o- Marc Auge
An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computers and cash machines. Auge uses the concept of 'super modernity' to describe a situation of excessive information and excessive space. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls 'non-space' results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner.
In this fascinating essay, now re-issued with a new introduction, he seeks to establish an intellectual framework for an anthropology of super modernity modernity.