marc augé describes in "Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity" an interchangeable, transient location of no particular importance which is excised from the memory of those who travel through. non-places are supermodern. too much is happening too fast and nothing leaves a trace when the cleaners come at the end of the day. every non-place of a particular archetype could be anywhere at all in the world, and each is catered towards the minimum social contract of people in the unit of one (1) person. i love me a good non-place. there are several brand-spanking new malls from MIXC in shenzhen and each one is a vast white sparkling cut-from-2040 box with the same forty mainstay stores as the next. the new terminal B and C at laguardia evoke similar sensations of clean, efficient, robotic fugue as i step on moving walkway N on the way to metal tube XNNN to terminal airport ABC halfway around the country or world. on the other hand a continual non-place traipse can…
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