Non-Places and the Anthropology of Supermodernity

Inthe globalised world, people spend an increasing proportion of their time at airports, train stations, ATMs, bus stops, freeways and shopping malls. These transient spaces, we rarely engage with, for they are places undefined by any significant historical or relational characteristics, these non-places are the by-products of an accelerated society, which calls for the swift movement of capital and people. Non-places guide our conduct as customers, passengers or users, they designate two realities; one is that the space is formed in relation to an end (commerce, transport, leisure, etc.), another is the relations individuals have with non-places. Non-places mediate a mass of relations, connected with certain purposes, contrary to anthropological places that foster the socially organic, non-places confine individuals to indirect contractual isolation. Non-places are homogeneous, the same architecture creeps everywhere, here automatic doors meet air conditioning, while soles meet escalators and marble floors. The seamlessness of these megastructures facilitate an unwritten code of behaviour. <a href="https://medium.com/@scottbrodieforsyth/non-places-and-the-anthropology-of-supermodernity-exploring-the-lifelessness-of-shopping-malls-and-ec3ae4545bc0">Click Here</a>