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NON-PLACES - MARC AUGÉ TASCHENBUCH

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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