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Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity: An Introduction to Supermodernity Paperback – 1 Jan. 2009

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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.

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128 pages
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English
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Verso Books
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1 Jan. 2009
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12.95 x 1.02 x 19.81 cm
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1844673111
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978-1844673117
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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. --Patrick Wright, author of The Village That Died for England.

Unsettling, elegantly written and illuminating: essential reading for anyone seeking to understand our supermodern condition. --The Guardian

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MARC AUGE is Director of Studies at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Verso Books; New edition (1 Jan. 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1844673111
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1844673117
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.95 x 1.02 x 19.81 cm

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Interesting book, could have done with being more concise ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 May 2017

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Interesting book, could have done with being more concise and including more depth to the exposition and analysis for the anthropological readers.

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interesting book great read

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A mixed bag...

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The book opens with a brief discussion of the present state of anthropology, and attitudes within the subject regarding studying Western society: the growing necessity of it versus anthropology's background in studying the very distant Other. How to define research, then, so that a study of 'supermodernity' may be possible? Augé touches upon the meanings of time and history - its acceleration, and the endings of the 'grand narratives' and thus modernity.
He then discusses anthropological place, with much reference to the signposting on French autoroutes of villages' historical features! Around page 80 he gets on to de Certeau's relationship between space and place, contrasting it with his own - and finally to the titular matter of the book: 'non-places' like motorways, supermarkets and airports which make up the landscape of supermodernity.
By 3 stars I really mean 3.5 - this book is worth reading, I believe, but is not uniformly interesting. The last 40 pages may be fascinating, clear to read and and insightful, but the early part of the book isn't so immediately appealing. It may also be worth noting that the book's short [about 110 pages] and consists largely of Augé's ideas with a minimum of citations; the bibliography is sketchy in the extreme!

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cbrylla

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2015

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very insightful for anyone interested in the phenomenology of place

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Five Stars

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read it a few times good read

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A bit esoteric for me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2005

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This was a course book recommended for me to read and is a bit obscure. I need to read it again, maybe even a few times. As with all French philosophers, it is not easy to get into. So it is probably not a mediocre 3 star rating at all, that's just where I am with it at the moment, so I will keep you all updated if I read it again

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Brief and disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 July 2009

Reading this book after having heard of it often mentioned by academic staff in architecture and architectural history, it eventually comes as a disappointing read, only alleviated by the brevity of the text.

The new edition (2009) has lost his subtitle, and gained an 'introduction to the second edition'. Follow a 'Prologue', 'The Near and the Elsewhere,' 'Anthropological Place,' 'From Places to Non-Places,' 'Epilogue' and 'A Brief Bibliography'.

Probably the most annonying aspect of the publication is its aimless character. It is not clear where the text comes from - why it has been written, published, and translated - and what it is aimed at achieving.

The various comments on Mauss, de Certeau, Derrida, have a feeling of déjà vu to them all, and because the body of the book has not been revisited since 1995, it is slightly - if not completely - dated.

For instance, it relies on French realities of space and place which are presented almost as well known clichés. More importantly, it does not take any account of the most recent transformations in the fabric of the country and the spatial relations between capital and regions.

With 10 items only, the 'brief bibliography' would better be known as a list of references.

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