Non-places

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1. peterldownsSep 2025
   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.
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2. peterldownsJan 2025
   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, geographically, and temporally.

   Simply put, the modern world feels bad because we're constantly engaging with information that we can't assimilate into a coherent model. In the past you could rely on simple and incorrect models of the world and generally be OK since your life was relatively local. Now, your life requires you to engage in a much larger sphere, one that is too large and changes too quickly to be understood.

   PDF: https://monoskop.org/images/3/3c/Auge_Marc_Non-Places_Introd...

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3. peter_l_downsNov 2018
   If you're interested in this general concept of "genericization", take a look at Marc Auge's Non-Places.
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4. inoSep 2016
   How can one talk so much about places and non-places without mentioning Marc Augé?
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