For Marc Auge, best-selling author of Non-Places, the prevailing idea of "the Future" rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Auge finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.
For Marc Auge, best-selling author of Non-Places, the prevailing idea of "the Future" rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Auge finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.
Marc Augé is Director of Studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.
Unsettling, elegantly written and illuminating: essential
reading.
*PD Smith, Guardian (in praise of Non-Places)*
A timely and original book.
*Patrick Wright (in praise of Non-Places)*
Augé's concerns are subtle and convincing in their selection.
*Full Stop*
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