Marc Augé: Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1992–) [EN, ES, CR, IT, HU, BR-PT]

“A provocative study of the ‘non-space’ which defines our age’s love for excess of information and space.

An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computers and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Augé calls “non-space” results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner. Augé uses the concept of “supermodernity” to describe a situation of excessive information and excessive space. In this fascinating essay he seeks to establish an intellectual armature for an anthropology of supermodernity.”

Originally published in French as Non-lieux: Introduction á une anthropologie de la surmodenité, Editions de Seuil, 1992

English edition
Translated by John Howe
Publisher Verso, 1995
ISBN 1859840515, 9781859840511
122 pages

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Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (English, trans. John Howe, 1995, updated on 2014-3-20)
Los no lugares: Espacios del anonimato: Una antropología de la sobremodernidad (Spanish, trans. Margarita Mizraji, 2000)
Nemjesta: Uvod u moguću antropologiju supermoderniteta (Croatian, trans. Vlatka Valentić, 2002)
Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, 2nd ed. (English, trans. John Howe, 2008, added on 2020-8-2)
Nonluoghi. Introduzione a una antropologia della surmodernità (Italian, trans. Dominique Rolland, 2009, added on 2020-8-2)
Nem-helyek: Bevezetés a szürmodernitás antropológiájába (Hungarian, trans. Agoston Faber, 2012, added on 2020-8-2)
Não-lugares: introdução a uma antropologia da supermodernidade (BR-Portuguese, trans. Maria Lucia Pereira, 9th ed., 2012, 50 MB, added on 2020-8-2)

Pierre Clastres: Archeology of Violence (1980/1994)

“Pierre Clastres broke up with his mentor Claude Levi-Strauss to collaborate with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Gattari on their Anti-Oedipus. He is the rare breed of political anthropologist—a Nietzschean—and his work presents us with a generalogy of power in a native state. For him, tribal societies are not Rousseauist in essence; to the contrary, they practice systematic violence in order to prevent the rise in their midst of this “cold monster”: the state. Only by waging war with other tribes can they maintain the dispersion and autonomy of each group. In the same way, tribal chiefs are not all-powerful; to the contrary, they are rendered weak in order to remain dependent on the community. In a series of groundbreaking essays, Clastres turns around the analysis of power among South American Indians and rehabilitates violence as an affirmative act meant to protect the integrity of their societies. These ‘savages’ are shrewd political minds who resist in advance any attempt at ‘globalization.'”

Translated from the French by Jeanine Herman
Publisher Semiotext(e), 1994
Foreign Agents series
200 pages

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