TY  - BOOK
AU  - Augé,Marc
TI  - Non-places
SN  - 9781844673223
AV  - GN345 .A92513 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Place (Philosophy) in architecture
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Space (Architecture)
KW  - Place (Philosophy)
KW  - Space perception
N1  - Previous edition: 1995; Includes bibliographical references (page [99]); Introduction to the second edition; Prologue; The Near and the Elsewhere; Anthropological Place; From Places to Non-Places; Epilogue; A Brief Bibliography
N2  - "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 Auge has become their anthropologist, and has written a timely and original book." "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 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 a situation of excessive information and excessive space. In this fascinating essay he seeks to establish an intellectual armature for an anthropology of supermodernity."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -