A review by reibureibu
Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity by John Howe, Marc Augé

challenging informative medium-paced

3.5

My fault for not knowing going in that it would take an anthropological lens of "liminal spaces", and in that regard I found the text rather challenging (likely due to my unfamiliarity with the field) in spite of its brief length. I'd wager that anyone interested in this due to its subject matter will feel the same if not an anthropologist, but even so it's well worth pushing through because all the anthropology-specific technics Augé frontloads serve to make the back-half of the text dense and weighted (despite the 'liminality' of its topic) with analysis in a way that much of the popular literature of "liminal spaces" falls deeply short of. "Non-Places" is then perhaps the first truly edifying work on said topic I have come across, which is all the more impressive given it was first published in 1995; youtube video essays have a long way to go.