Non-Places Paperback by Marc Auge

Product Details

• Publisher: Verso (2009-01-05)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 128 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781844673117
• Item Weight: 124.74 grams
• Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.4 cm

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. This invasion of the world by what Marc Augé calls “non-space” results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner. Augé uses the concept of “supermodernity” to describe a situation of excessive information and excessive space. In this fascinating essay he seeks to establish an intellectual armature for an anthropology of supermodernity.

About the Author

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