Marc Augé

Details

Nationality

French

Classifications

Holder

Individual

Source of authority

Observation

Subject

Human centred

Mode of transmission

Text drawing

Knowledge type

Propositional

Epistemic cluster

Western philosophical

Notes

Developed the oppositional model of 'place' versus 'non-place' (1995), distinguishing authentic places defined by history/centrality/recognition from homogenized, generic 'non-places' of consumption and transit; quoted (77-78): 'If a place can be defined as relational, historical and concerned with identity, then a space which cannot be defined as relational, or historical, or concerned with identity will be a non-place.'

Connections

• influenced Hans Ibelings
• proposed Non-Place

Sources

1. Marc Augé. Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity. Verso, 1995.
2. Marc Augé. An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds. Stanford University Press, 1999.
3. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 15 of 20
4. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 4 of 22