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MARC AUGE: I'd love to say you become one by accident, but if I must elaborate, let me say that being trained in literature, I wanted to get away from strictly academic study and to pursue more speculative thinking. That and a curiosity about other cultures put me on this path. There were, of course, other determining factors, like meeting Georges Balandier.
THE PARISIAN METRO SYSTEM has fascinated many a mind. For Raymond Queneau's Zazie it was a kind of Holy Grail, an object of longing never attained. In Les Passagers du Roissy-Express (1990), Francois Maspero traveled for a month on it to discover what he thought he already knew. More recently, in Poemes de metro (2000; see WLT 75:1, p. 242), Jacques Jouet used its structure and its rhythms to elaborate a new poetic form. Marc Auge's own fascination with the metro is that of a distinguished ghellip;
In this essay I will explore the anthropological notion of a“non-placesm”, with reference to the related essay by Marc Auge Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity . I will apply this notion specifically to the theme of travel, and how this is engaged within the selected works of art by contemporary visual artists.
Marc Auge in his book Non Places o– Introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity argues that supermodernity creates non-places. The main characteristic of supermodernity is excess, so non-places are results or perhaps some kind of side effects of the excess of time, excess of space and excess of ego. Hence supermodernity is created through the logic of excess.
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