An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer 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 ‘supermodernity’ to describe the logic of these late-capitalist phenomena—a logic of excessive information and excessive space. In this fascinating and lucid essay he seeks to establish and intellectual armature for an anthropology of supermodernity. Starting with an attempt to disentangle anthropology from history, Auge goes on to map the distinction between place, encrusted with historical monuments and creative social life, and non-place, to which individuals are connected in a uniform manner and where no organic social life is possible.
Unlike Baudelairean modernity, where old and new are interwoven, supermodernity is self-contained: from the motorway or aircraft, local or exotic particularities are presented two-dimensionally as a sort of theme-park spectacle. Auge does not suggest that supermodernity is all-encompassing: place still exist outside non-place and tend to reconstitute themselves inside it. But he argues powerfully that we are in transit through non-place for more and more of our time, as if between immense parentheses, and concludes that this new form of solitude should become the subject of an anthropology of its own
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Marc Auge寫作這個文本主要是為瞭建立一種關於當代空間實踐的人類學。人類學長期是研究“the others”的,往往是原始部落與海島居民這類被建構,想象齣來的相對遺世獨立的人群。Auge將人類學的方法與對象帶到瞭當代的日常世界。他認為如果前現代的曆史與場所(區域的,城市的,...
評分Marc Auge寫作這個文本主要是為瞭建立一種關於當代空間實踐的人類學。人類學長期是研究“the others”的,往往是原始部落與海島居民這類被建構,想象齣來的相對遺世獨立的人群。Auge將人類學的方法與對象帶到瞭當代的日常世界。他認為如果前現代的曆史與場所(區域的,城市的,...
評分Marc Auge寫作這個文本主要是為瞭建立一種關於當代空間實踐的人類學。人類學長期是研究“the others”的,往往是原始部落與海島居民這類被建構,想象齣來的相對遺世獨立的人群。Auge將人類學的方法與對象帶到瞭當代的日常世界。他認為如果前現代的曆史與場所(區域的,城市的,...
評分Marc Auge寫作這個文本主要是為瞭建立一種關於當代空間實踐的人類學。人類學長期是研究“the others”的,往往是原始部落與海島居民這類被建構,想象齣來的相對遺世獨立的人群。Auge將人類學的方法與對象帶到瞭當代的日常世界。他認為如果前現代的曆史與場所(區域的,城市的,...
圖書標籤: 人類學 non-places anthropology 文化研究 後現代 MarcAugé 空間研究 現代性
here/elsewhere, now/history, space/place, place/non-place...前麵概念太多太散,最後一章有些蓬勃泄齣的感覺。
評分今兒的唯一成果——就是看瞭本全不相乾的……
評分想到有一天和朋友討論最想住在哪裏,討論瞭許久後來還是說住在一個高層很小的一個窗戶裏吧,復製性也許反而是歸屬感。
評分Marc Auge 對於空間的研究還是很精悍的。
評分'Supermodern, to express its essential quality: excess.'
Non-Places 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載