[csaa-forum] PUBLIC LECTURE: Professor Marc Augé - Architecture and non-places - Thurs 12 December 2013. University of Queensland.

[Greg Hainge]

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FREE PUBLIC LECTURE,
HOSTED BY THE SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND COMPARATIVE CULTURAL STUDIES,
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

Professor Marc Augé
Architecture and non-places

Time:    5pm-6pm (refreshments 6pm-7pm)
Date:    Thursday 12 December
Venue:  Abel Smith lecture theatre, St Lucia Campus
RSVP:   by Mon 9 Dec (for catering) to events at slccs.uq.edu.au<mailto:events at slccs.uq.edu.au>

Abstract:

Using one of his most famous concepts, namely the idea of the “non-place”, in this lecture Professor Augé will examine concepts such as globalisation, urbanisation, city-world and world-city. In doing this he will draw up an opposition between the "system" and "history" to argue that great architecture today is an expression of the system that participates in a contemporary aesthetic characterized by a sense of distance. Professor Augé will conclude by suggesting, provocatively, that the very idea of world architecture alludes to a global society that does not exist and is thus a reproduction, in reverse, of the relationship expressed by the sight of the ruins of the past. Given this, it may be that we are condemned to find beauty in non-places.


Professor Marc Augé is one of France’s leading intellectuals. His work has revolutionized his primary discipline of anthropology and serves as a key point of reference for work inside and outside of this field. He is the author of dozens of books including Non-Places: An Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, In the Metro and L’Expérience des images (with Umberto Eco and Georges Didi-Huberman). In 2008 the journalL’Homme dedicated an entire edition to his work. Having studied at the École Normale Supérieure, Augé spent much of his career at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales where he served as President and taught many leading seminars.

http://www.slccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=205094
http://www.uq.edu.au/events/event_view.php?event_id=10002

Associate Professor Greg Hainge
Reader in French | SLCCS | UQ

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