Non-place

The term was introduced by Marc Augé in his work Non-places: introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity,[2] although it bears a strong resemblance to earlier concepts introduced by Edward Relph in Place and Placelessness and Melvin Webber in his writing on the 'nonplace urban realm'.

Augé avoids making value judgments on non-places and looks at them from the perspective of an ethnologist who has a new field of studies to explore.

A significant debate concerning the term and its interpretation is described in Marc Augé's writings under the title of "From Places to Non-Places".

As essential preliminary here is the analyses of the notions of place and space suggested by Michel de Certeau.

He describes music created decades in the past as deprived of any sense of disjuncture with the present,[6] a clear connection with his theory of capitalist realism.