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.
| ISBN: | 9781844673117 |
| Publication date: | 5th January 2009 |
| Author: | Marc Augé |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Genres: |
Anthropology Western philosophy from c 1800 Development and environmental geography |