Augé, Marc, author.

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

Paperback edition.
English-language edition.
Second edition.

London ; New York : Verso, 2023.
©2023

xxii, 98 pages ; 20 cm

"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.

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

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

Howe, John (Translator), translator.

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