Non Places # 2

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:08

"‘Anthropological place’ is formed by individual identities, through complicities of language, local references, the unformulated rules of living know-how; non-place creates the shared identity of passengers, customers or Sunday drivers. No doubt the relative anonymity that goes with this temporary identity can even be felt as a liberation, by people who, for a time, have only to keep in line, go where they are told, check their appearance." - Marc Augé - Non Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity

*for Non Places #1 click here