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Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity 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 'super modernity' to describe a situation of excessive information and excessive space. In this fascinating essay, now re-issued with a new introduction, he seeks to establish an intellectual framework for an anthropology of super modernity modernity.Read More

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  • BookDepository

    Non-Places : Paperback : Verso Books : 9781844673117 : 1844673111 : 05 Jan 2009 : 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 the author calls 'non-space' results in a profound alteration of awareness. This book presents an intellectual framework for an anthropology of super modernity.

  • Blackwell

    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.

  • Pickabook

    Marc Auge, John Howe (Trans)

  • 1844673111
  • 9781844673117
  • Marc Auge
  • 1 January 2009
  • Verso Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 128
  • New edition
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