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  Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity (Paperback) By (author) Marc Auge, Translated by John Howe

  

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  Short Description for Non-PlacesAn 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.
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  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Published: 01 January 2009
  • Format: Paperback 122 pages
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  • Categories: Anthropology
  • ISBN 13: 9781844673117 ISBN 10: 1844673111
  • Sales rank: 27,595

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• 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.