CANARY WHARF

Canary Wharf

Canary Wharf

Introduction

In his book and essay named as “Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology Super modernity” 1995, Marc Ague used the expression “non-place” to indicate the transience places that do not have any importance may be declared as “places”. The most common examples of a non-place may include a hotel room, a motorway, supermarket, or an airport. According to the Marc Ague, such places results in a deep modification of awareness; something we perceive only in an incoherent and partial manner (Knox, 2005, pp 1-11). Ague has utilized the concept of 'super modernity' to explain the complicated background of such phenomenon of late capitalist; such phenomenon includes judgment or a sense of excessive space and excessive information. This essay discusses the Ague's ideas of places and non-places, and also explains that what he means by these terms and apply his ideas in a closely observed analysis of Canary Whary in London.

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Marc Ague's Concept of a Non-Place

In this interesting and logical essay Marc Auge aims to develop and logical framework for an anthropology of super modernity. Initiating with an effort to unscramble history from anthropology, Mark Ague goes on to develop or create the difference between place, encrusted with creative social life and historical monuments, and non-place, to which persons or individuals are attached in a uniform way and where there is no existence of organic social life. Contrasting from Baudelairean modernity, where new and old are interrelated, super modernity is independent and self-reliance: from the aircraft or motorway, exotic or local particularities are two-dimensionally represented as a type of theme-park demonstration or spectacle.

Mark Ague does not recommend that super modernity is all-inclusive: place still present outside non-place and be likely to reconstitute them within it (Hubbard & Kitchin, 2010). Although Mark Ague argues strongly that we are in journey through non-place for added and new of our time, as if between huge and enormous parentheses, and ends that this new appearance or structure of privacy and loneliness should turn out to be the subject of its own anthropology. Marc Auge in his book Non Places - Introduction to anthropology of super modernity contends that super advancement makes non-places.

Marc Auge starts with a gap about a man travelling through airplane from Paris. The man takes some amount of money, stay and wait at highway, goes to the airport and then to the airplane. The real concept or the soul of the book range from going to the highway, then airport and then to the airplane (Tucker, 1996). All the while the reality of this man is covered with the bright lights, advertising, polished and glass walkways of various places that are not present in Ague's sense, but may require their uniqueness from going from one place to another throughout the entire journey. The declared interest of Auge is these 'non-places'.

The lounges of airports, fast food restaurants and transport spaces, for example rapid motorways, highways and track lines, are not "place" in light of the fact that they fail to ...