Unsettling, elegantly written and illuminating: essential reading for anyone seeking to understand our supermodern condition.

- PD Smith, Guardian

Shopping malls, motorways, airport lounges-we are all familiar with these curious spaces which are both everywhere and nowhere. But only now do we have a coherent analysis of their far-reaching effects on public and private experience. Marc Augé has become their anthropologist, and has written a timely and original book.

- Patrick Wright,

It is indeed very seldom that one finds it difficult to put down a book because of the intellectual excitement it generates. Augé's <i>Non-Places</i> is such a book-a powerful message, modestly delivered, which stands out as a unique and refreshing anthropological voice.

Current Anthropology

An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. 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. Auge uses the concept of 'supermodernity' to describe the logic of these late-capitalist phenomena - a logic of excessive information and excessive space. In this fascinating and lucid essay he seeks to establish and intellectual armature for an anthropology of supermodernity. Starting with an attempt to disentangle anthropology from history, Auge goes on to map the distinction between place, encrusted with historical monuments and creative social life, and non-place, to which individuals are connected in a uniform manner and where no organic social life is possible.

Unlike Baudelairean modernity, where old and new are interwoven, supermodernity is self-contained: from the motorway or aircraft, local or exotic particularities are presented two-dimensionally as a sort of theme-park spectacle. Auge does not suggest that supermodernity is all-encompassing: place still exist outside non-place and tend to reconstitute themselves inside it. But he argues powerfully that we are in transit through non-place for more and more of our time, as if between immense parentheses, and concludes that this new form of solitude should become the subject of an anthropology of its own.
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A provocative study of the 'non-space' which defines our age's love for excess of information and space
Introduction to the Second Edition

Prologue
The Near and the Elsewhere
Anthropological Place
From Places to Non-Places
Epilogue

A Brief Bibliography
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A provocative study of the 'non-space' which defines our age's love for excess of information and space
Previous editions have sold 30,000 copies,A book for readers of psychogeography, for those who walk the city and for those who travel through the non spaces of airports.,For readers of Owen Hatherley, Rebecca Solnit, Iain Sinclair and Geoff Dyer.,An essential classic for Urban Studies, Geographers, Architects.,For readers of David Harvey, Edward Soja, Rem Koolhaas, Henri Lefebvre,Academic marketing campaign
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781804292600
Publisert
2023-11-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
110 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
9 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
128

Forfatter
Oversetter

Biografisk notat

Marc Augé is Director of Studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.