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How can one talk so much about places and non-places without mentioning Marc Augé?



Please don't post snarky dismissals, even when you know more than someone else does. In addition to going against what we're hoping for in the culture here (civil, substantive comments and intellectual curiosity), it's off-topic, since it changes the subject to how much you know.

A better way to express your knowledge would be to share some of it, such as by introducing readers to Marc Augé (whom most of us probably haven't heard of) and say something about his contribution to these ideas.


I'd never heard of Augé until you mentioned him. It looks (from his Wikipedia article) like his sense of Non-Place includes some things that New World Economics would call Place (supermarkets and hotels); but as for why he's not mentioned, I'd guess that the author of New World Economics just doesn't know about him.




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