NOWHERE
What is a non-place?
The anthropologist Marc Augé suggests it to us, defining it paradoxically as a true place, yet one to which identity is denied.
It refers to mostly anonymous and dispersive spaces that do not relate to the social context in which they are immersed, remaining marginal presences.
Non-places are not conceived to be experienced,
in them, the presence of the individual is precarious and transient.
Subjectivities come into contact with each other according
to pre-established schemes and hierarchies,
for a limited time to carry out specific activities.
Suspended in time, frozen in the here and now,
disused industrial buildings are a fitting example of this:
conceived as non-places, at the moment of abandonment, even their only function is denied, so they increasingly slip to the extremes of society, from which they are now recognized only in terms of what they are no longer.
What is a non-place?
The anthropologist Marc Augé suggests it to us, defining it paradoxically as a true place, yet one to which identity is denied.
It refers to mostly anonymous and dispersive spaces that do not relate to the social context in which they are immersed, remaining marginal presences.
Non-places are not conceived to be experienced,
in them, the presence of the individual is precarious and transient.
Subjectivities come into contact with each other according
to pre-established schemes and hierarchies,
for a limited time to carry out specific activities.
Suspended in time, frozen in the here and now,
disused industrial buildings are a fitting example of this:
conceived as non-places, at the moment of abandonment, even their only function is denied, so they increasingly slip to the extremes of society, from which they are now recognized only in terms of what they are no longer.