1. Non-places: An Introduction to Supermodernity Marc Augé

2. Non-places Theory of place and identity in era of globalization (supermodernity) Distinguishes between “anthropological place” and “non-places” Supermodernity bypasses anthropological place and creates non-places

3. Anthropological place Places of identity, of relations and of history Stable places; foster individual and group identity Continuity between past and present Importance of tradition and ritual

4. Anthropological places Rural villages and communities Central meeting places, e.g. market square Religious rituals (e.g. procession of Corpus Christi) Monuments (war memorials)

5. Anthropological place Rooted in the local Familiar Augé: these local places are becoming hollowed out in supermodernity

6. Non-places “spaces formed in relation to certain ends (transport, transit, commerce, leisure), and the relations that individuals have with these spaces.” (Augé, 76)

7. Non-places Supermarkets Industrial zones Motorways

8. Associated words: Transit, interchange, passenger, destination, housing estate

9. Non-places: “where people are born in the clinic and die in hospital, where transit points and temporary abodes are proliferating under luxurious or inhuman conditions […]; where a dense network of means of transport which are also inhabited spaces is developing; […]; a world thus surrendered to solitary individuality, to the fleeting, the temporary and ephemeral”. Augé, 63

10. Non-places “non-places are the real measure of our time” (Augé, 64) Travel, mobility – act of passing through: the motorway People in “non-places” are like “tourists”, “visitors

11. Non-places Solitary and anonymous Spectators of landscape v being anchored in the landscape Ghostly figures

12. Non-places “in the supermodern non-place people are always and never at home.” Augé, 87

13. The motorway