Non-places: Introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity

Most people spend an increasing amount of time in soulless, impersonal places: motorways, airports, in front of cash machines, TVs and computers. For the author, this is symptomatic of the experience of supermodernity or late-capitalist existence. The invasion of modern life by these non-places is central to this work. The book explores the distinction between place, encrusted with historical meaning and creative of social life, and non-place, to which individuals are connected in a uniform, bureaucratic manner and where no organic social life is possible. Marc Auge is the author of Pouvoirs de Vie, Pouvoirs de Mort, Genie du Paganisme, Un Ethnogue dans le Metro and Domaines et Chateaux.