Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings (1979/1996)
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“Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson’s significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been widely acknowledged and the importance of his thinking to contemporary artists and art critics continues to grow. In addition to a new introduction by Jack Flam, The Collected Writings includes previously unpublished essays by Smithson and gathers hard-to-find articles, interviews, and photographs. Together these provide a full picture of his wide-ranging views on art and culture.”
First published as The Writings of Robert Smithson, New York University Press, 1979.
Revised and Expanded edition
Edited, with an Introduction by Jack Flam
Publisher University of California Press, 1996
ISBN 0520203852, 9780520203853
385 pages
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PDF (62 MB, no OCR)
PDF (18 MB, OCR, updated on 2016-12-15)
Marc Augé: Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1992–) [EN, ES, CR, IT, HU, BR-PT]
Filed under book | Tags: · anthropology, ethnology, modernity, non-place, sociology, supermodernity
“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
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)