About Marc Augé
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Aug%C3%A9
Marc Augé (born 1935 in Poitiers) is a French anthropologist.
In an essay and book of the same title, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995), Marc Augé coined the phrase “non-place” to refer to places of transience that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as “places”. Examples of a non-place would be a motorway, a hotel room, an airport or a supermarket.[1]
About the book
- Non-Places: An introduction to supermodernity, Marc Auge, 1995
- Introduction
- 1992, urbanization, emerging ‘magelopolice’
- triple ‘decentring’
- 1st decenter: City and its importance is measured by its connection and attractiveness to the others.
- 2nd decenter: Dwelling. Helmes has taken Hestia’s place -> means to day the computer and computer have replaces the hearth, where shadowy, feminine center of the house used to be.
- 3rd decenter: Individual. Decentered in a sense from himself. Mobilephones, TV, computers.. an individual is decentered from his immediate physical surrounding.