Non-places
by Marc Augé · first published 1995
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If you're interested in this general concept of "genericization", take a look at Marc Auge's Non-Places.
on “Travel and the algorithmic trap” ↗For anyone interested in this book, I recommend also reading "Non-Places: Introduction To An Anthropology Of Supermodernity" by Marc Augé. He lays out an interesting argument that the stress and the anxiety of the modern world is due to a collapse of distance — informatically,…
on “The Tsunami of Burnout Few See” ↗Given your interest in BCH, you may enjoy Non-places: An Anthropology of Supermodernity by Marc Augé. BCH draws on a lot of Augé's ideas from this book in Psychopolitics. It is obtuse and either poorly-translated or badly-written but the ideas are excellent.
on “Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself” ↗How can one talk so much about places and non-places without mentioning Marc Augé?
on “Place and Non-Place (2009)” ↗