TY  - BOOK
AU  - Augé,Marc
AU  - Howe,John
AU  - Mogford,Dan
AU  - Smith,Carolina
TI  - Non-places: introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity 
T2  - Cultural studies
SN  - 9781844673117
AV  - GN345.N66 A92513 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London
PB  - Verso
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Space perception
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 99); Prologue; The near and the elsewhere; Anthropological place; From places to non-places; Epilogue
N2  - 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
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