Marc Augé Boeken

In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are people so overburdened by the cost of living and so undercompensated that they cannot afford a place to sleep. According to the website for the Coalition for the Homeless, forty-four percent of the homeless in first world countries actually have jobs. In No Fixed Abode, Marc Augé's pathbreaking ethnofiction--a fictional ethnography--a man named Henri narrates his strange existence in the margins of Paris. By day he walks the streets, lingers in conversation with the local shopkeepers, and sits writing in cafés, but at night he takes shelter in an abandoned house. From here, we see a progressive erosion of Henri's identity, a loss of bearings, and a slow degeneration of his ability to relate to others. But then he meets the artist Dominique, whose willingness to share her life with him raises questions about who he has become and about what a person needs in order to be a part of society. This is a book about how we live in geographical space and how work and patterns of domicile affect our status and our inner being. Despite the apparent simplicity of the fictional premise, Augé's book asks serious questions about the nature of our culture.

For the health of the psyche and the culture, for the individual and the whole society, oblivion is as necessary as memory. One must know how to forget, Marcus Auge suggests, not just to live fully in the present but also to comprehend the past.

For Marc Augé, best-selling author of Non-Places, the prevailing idea of “the Future” rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Augé finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.

The narrative explores themes of longing and connection, delving into the emotional landscapes of its characters as they seek to reunite with lost loved ones. Set against a backdrop of personal and societal challenges, it weaves a poignant tale of hope and resilience. The author's evocative prose captures the complexity of relationships and the universal desire for belonging, making it a compelling read that resonates with anyone who has experienced the ache of separation.

A provocative study of the 'non-space' which defines our age's love for excess of information and space

Part memoir, part manifesto, this is a celebration of the bicycle by French anthropologist Marc Auge.

A meditation in the style of Proust and Perec on the abstract relation of age to knowing ourselves and others.

Die Publikation reflektiert die Entwicklung des Ebertplatz in Köln, jener städtebaulichen Beton-Utopie aus den 60er Jahren, die heute als ein zentraler Treffpunkt und Kommunikationsort für zeitgenössische Kunst abseits des Mainstreams gilt. Aus der temporären Nutzung eines leeren Ladenlokales entwickelte sich einer der wichtigsten unabhängigen Ausstellungsräume Kölns. Nach drei Jahren BOUTIQUE schaut die Publikation zurück auf das, was bisher geschah. Eingeladene Autoren - Soziologen, Philosophen, Kunsthistoriker und auch Künstler betrachten aus ihrer Perspektive das Phänomen Ebertplatz und untersuchen die urbane Qualität des Ortes aus ihrer fachspezifischen Perspektive. Welche Bedeutung hat der Begriff Kultur für eine Stadt und welche Form der urbanen Landschaft inspiriert uns? Brauchen wir im Zeitalter netzbasierter Ersatzöffentlichkeiten noch Plätze?