{"product_id":"non-places","title":"Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA provocative study of the ‘non-space’ which defines our age’s love for excess of information and space\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn 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 \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eplace\u003c\/i\u003e, encrusted with historical monuments and creative social life, and \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enon-place\u003c\/i\u003e, to which individuals are connected in a uniform manner and where no organic social life is possible.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnlike Baudelairean modernity, where old and new are interwoven, supermodernity is self-contained: from the motorway or aircraft, local or exotic particularities are presented two-dimensionally as a sort of theme park spectacle. Auge does not suggest that supermodernity is all encompassing: place still exist outside non-place and tend to reconstitute themselves inside it. But he argues powerfully that we are in transit through non-place for more and more of our time, as if between immense parentheses, and concludes that this new form of solitude should become the subject of an anthropology of its own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhysical Info: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e198 x 129 mm | \u003cspan\u003e128 pages | \u003c\/span\u003ePaperback \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marc Augé","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42682135543908,"sku":"9781804292600","price":780.0,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/8067\/9780\/files\/9781804292600.jpg?v=1704787664","url":"https:\/\/booksandbelongings.com\/products\/non-places","provider":"Books \u0026 Belongings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}