Some random thoughts and notes as I try to redefine some questions on my thesis subject.
Marc Augé, whose book Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995) was an important resource for the show, describes the production of non-places as the most conspicuous characteristic of the Über-Modern, and sees an interplay between these new sites and old, historically situated ones: ‘ … like the place, the non-place doesn’t exist in pure form; it’s more likely that new places are generated, relations are reconstructed within. Place and non-place are contrary poles; the place never disappears completely and the non-place is never fully established - they are palimpsests on which the confusing game of identity and relation finds its own reflection over and over.’
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/non_places/
Our investigations question if it is possible to shift perceptions of these neglected sites from non-placesto places with the [re]introduction of the human [body] and through implementing non-conventional modes of cultural expression in architectural form and language.
http://www.msa.ac.uk/colleges/displace-non-place/
In contrast to places, non-places are “dumb” spaces, in which the chief cognitive demands are way-finding, following a bureaucratic procedure, or mere consumption (Augé, 1995).
Non-places deploy signs and symbols in the supposedly unambiguous language of the propositional clause (“wait here”), rather than relying on the rich layering of custom, history, and meaning found in places.
http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/place/5_COYNERomeInteract.pdf
But the link is still missing. Crap.
