non-place

is a transit space (i.e. Highway, hotel room, airport) that does not hold enough significance to be regarded as a place.

What we call non-places, in opposition to the sociological notion of place, associated by Mauss and a whole ethnological tradition with the idea of a culture localized in time and space. The installations needed for the accelerated circulation of passengers and goods (high-speed roads and railways, interchanges, airports) are just as much non-places as the means of transport themselves, or the great commercial centres, or the extended transit camps where the planet's refugees are parked. (34)

is analogous to a form of theory-blind, false consciousness.

for de Certeau the non-place is analogous to a form of theory-blind, false consciousness, for Auge it is the basis of his description of a post-postmodern, epochal shift (1995... 1998: 115-22)

non place, n.All

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