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“... may appear to fit together into a single functioning whole. And that perhaps is the main point in Marc Augé’s slim volume of critical essays. He perceives the various schools of anthropology, both past and present, as identified with three primary axes which boil down to ‘structuralism’, ‘functionalism’ and Marxism. In their own terms, these ...”

“... fumes of motorways, the junk-spaces of hotels and airports: in-between places. The sociologist Marc Augé calls these ‘non-places’, a series of unconnected zones filled with unconnected objects: a world where people are born in the clinic and die in hospital, where transit points and temporary abodes are proliferating . . . (hotel chains and ...”

“... have been a significant influence on such Post-Modernist figures as Baudrillard, Virilio and Marc Augé, Situationism itself, with its demands for perpetual revolutionary conflict, is often considered as no more than a primitive antecedent of the subtler, more nuanced Post-Modern critique of a world ‘in which commodities circulate without ...”