Marc Auge

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.

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