Collection Mediakcije, book number 9
Collection editor: Janez Janša
Original title: Non-lieux. Introduction à une anthropologie de la surmodernité
© Seuil, 1992.
© za slovensko izdajo: Maska, Ljubljana 2011
ISBN 978-961-6572-25-5
This book was published in Slovenian.
Marc Augé: Non places. Introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity
The book Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, originally published by French publisher Seuil, is a basic work of the urban anthropology which has been translated in a number of languages. The author deals with topical phenomena in the contemporary global society, in particular with places he refers to as non-places, i.e. airports, shppping malls, hotels, motorways etc.
These ambivalent places are the venues of contant movement, consumption, and communication; they don’t share any similar symbolic connections, there’s no play of identities. They exist as transitional, anonymous, functional places only perceived in a partial and incoherent manner.
In the author’s view, the opposite to a non-place is the anthropological place that bears identity, relations and history; it takes the form of a concrete place which represents to a person an important hub in a network of relations, invested with symbolism and meaning, memories, experience (for example an altar, birthplace, public square etc.). It is the first book publication of this author in Slovene
Collection Mediakcije, book number 9
Collection editor: Janez Janša
Original title: Non-lieux. Introduction à une anthropologie de la surmodernité
© Seuil, 1992.
© za slovensko izdajo: Maska, Ljubljana 2011
ISBN 978-961-6572-25-5
This book was published in Slovenian.
Contents
Prologue
The Near and the Elsewhere
Anthropological Places
From Places to Non-Places
Epilogue
A Few References
About the Author
Foreword
Matjaž Uršič
So Close and Yet So Distant –
Living Between Places and Non-Places of Marc Augé
O avtorju
Marc Augé (born September 2, 1935 in Poitiers) is a French anthropologist. In an essay and book of the same title, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995), Marc Augé coined the phrase “non-place” to refer to spaces where concerns of relations, history, and identity are erased. Examples of a non-place would be a motorway, a hotel room, an airport or a supermarket.
Knjiga v javnosti
Taja Topolovec: Eksces v četrti dimenziji
Delo – Pogledi / 6. 7. 2012
Nekraji so tako predvsem meditacija o fenomenu, osrediščena na nizanje antropologovih opažanj, znotraj katerih postane sistem krajev in nekrajev preplet nove posameznikove vsakdanjosti, kjer sta pomen in identiteta zamenjala izhodiščno mesto. Augé se pokaže predvsem kot pozoren opazovalec in sestavljalec zgodb, ki jih konstruira okoli navidezno obrobnih elementov realnosti in ponuja bralcu v pokušino. Kakor v spremni besedi ugotavlja Matjaž Uršič, je njegov presežek v tem, da prihaja do podobnih zaključkov kot njegovi sodobniki skozi analizo originalnih virov – se pravi lastnih zaznamkov z navidez obrobnega terena.
Marc Auge: Nekraji
TV Slovenija / Knjiga mene briga / 7. 5. 2012
Zdenko Vrdlovec: Kraji in nekraji
Dnevnik / 30. 12. 2011
Naj se individualno še tako razlikujejo, na nekrajih dobijo skupno identiteto potrošnika, potnika na letališču, hotelskega gosta, uporabnika bančnih storitev… In kakor antropološki kraji ustvarjajo “organsko skupnost”, tako nekraji ustvarjajo “samotnost in podobnost”. Lahko pa ponujajo tudi zadovoljstvo ob začasni izgubi identitete.
Sonja Zlobko: Potikanja v labirintu krajev in nekrajev
Radio Študent / 16. 3. 2012
V samemu začetku devetdesetih, ko je Auge pisal Uvod v antropologijo nadmodernosti, je antropologija še ostajala v poslednji zadregi prekinjanja s tradicionalnim, eksotičnim in avtentičnim v nasprotju s še neumeščenimi tokovi surovega kapitalizma, ki so preoblikovali svet. Ravno v tem pa je, za razliko od nekakšne ‘pesimistične’ stance konca antropologije, podobno kot koncem zgodovine, Auge videl priložnost za ponovno preizpraševanje poznanega in s pomočjo antropoloških krajev definiral nekraje.