Non-places : an introduction to supermodernity / Marc Augé.

Main entry:

Augé, Marc, author.

Title & Author:

Non-places : an introduction to supermodernity / Marc Augé.

Edition:

Paperback edition.
English-language edition.
Second edition.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2023.
©2023

Description:

xxii, 98 pages ; 20 cm

Notes:
Subtitle from cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction to the Second Edition -- Prologue -- The Near and the Elsewhere -- Anthropological Place -- From Places to Non-Places -- Epilogue -- A Brief Bibliography.
In English, translated from the original French.

Summary:

"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." -- From the publisher.

ISBN:

9781804292600 (paperback)
1804292605 (paperback)
(paperback)
9781844673117
9781859840511

Subject:

Ethnology Philosophy.
Space (Architecture) Social aspects.
Place (Philosophy)
Space perception.
Espace (Architecture) Aspect social.
Lieu (Philosophie)
Perception spatiale.
Ethnologie Philosophie.
space perception.

Added entries:

Howe, John (Translator), translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319191
Call No.: 319191
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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