Marc Auge

Evsiz Bir Adamin Güncesi

Biri Sizi Bulmaya Calisiyor

For Marc Augé, best-selling author of Non-Places, the prevailing idea of “the Future” rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Augé finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.

The Future

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.

An Introduction to Supermodernity

Non-Places

Marc Augé acuñó el concepto "no-lugar" para referirse a los lugares de transitoriedad que no tienen suficiente importancia para ser considerados como "lugares".

Los no lugares no existían en el pasado. Son espacios propiamente contemporáneos de confluencia anónimos, donde personas en tránsito deben instalarse durante algún tiempo de espera, sea a la salida del avión, del tren o del metro que ha de llegar.

Una antropología de la sobremodernidad

Los no lugares, espacios del anonimato

Mehmet Emin Özcan

Erkan Ataçay

Paganizmin dehası

Unutma Bicimleri

Yassiz Zaman-Kendi Etnolojini Yapmak

Vorüberlegungen zu einer Ethnologie der Einsamkeit

Orte und Nicht-Orte

Continues Augé's critical exploration of contemporary modernity with an examination of the role of dreams, myth and fiction in the age of satellite TV and the Internet.

Studies in Ethno Fiction

The War of Dreams

Marc Augé

This approach to anthropology focuses on negotiating the social meanings used in making sense of the world, and on the processes of identification that create the difference between same and other.

The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology

A Sense for the Other

Jean-Paul Colleyn

The World of the Anthropologist

In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are people so overburdened by the cost of living and so undercompensated that they cannot afford a place to sleep. According to the website for the Coalition for the Homeless, forty-four percent of the homeless in first world countries actually have jobs. In No Fixed Abode, Marc Augé's pathbreaking ethnofiction--a fictional ethnography--a man named Henri narrates his strange existence in the margins of Paris. By day he walks the streets, lingers in conversation with the local shopkeepers, and sits writing in cafés, but at night he takes shelter in an abandoned house. From here, we see a progressive erosion of Henri's identity, a loss of bearings, and a slow degeneration of his ability to relate to others. But then he meets the artist Dominique, whose willingness to share her life with him raises questions about who he has become and about what a person needs in order to be a part of society. This is a book about how we live in geographical space and how work and patterns of domicile affect our status and our inner being. Despite the apparent simplicity of the fictional premise, Augé's book asks serious questions about the nature of our culture.

Ethnofiction

No Fixed Abode

Marc Auge

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