Non-places

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Marc Augé Non- Places

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Create a presence of the past in the present: destinies, actions, thoughts and reminiscences rest on a bass line they mark the position that used to be occupied there by ancient ritual.

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Modernity pushes our central secrets, our bass line into the background. Places are saved by passwords. What could be a password - words, feelings, expressions - music.? If depression is a non-place, we loose our memory, our feelings our identity. We are stuck in a non-personal, silent space. We are aware of the place but can’t find a way out from the non-place we are trapped in. Supermodernity offers us a lot of crow- ded or empty non-places. They surround us and make us lost. We are not able to start a journey in this non-places as we are not able to get a perspective. We are loosing our character and be- come puppets in a dark room without walls.

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There are spaces in which the individual feels himself to be a spectator without paying much attention to the spectacle. As if the position of the spectator were the essence of the specta-cle, as if basically the spectator in the posi-tion of spectator were his own spectacle.

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In depression - neither identity, nor relations, nor history really make any sense.

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A description of the vanishing land is sufficient to evoke the passenger still straining to see it: soon it is only a shadow, a rumour, a noise. This abolition of place is also the consumma-tion of the journey, the traveller’s last pose.

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Non-places are supposed to be passed through. This is time con-suming therefore non-places can represent time and boredom and depression.

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You more and more wonder where you’re going only because you are less and less sure where you are right now.