(sourced from saatchionline.com)
This image is one of a series of three images I found on the Saatchi website by Amy Goodchild, entitled Non-space. They interested me conceptualy to a point as they tie in with Marc Auge's essay; Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995) which I have started to look at. Auge argues that there is a clear distinction between place and non-place, places being areas "encrusted with historical monuments and creative social life" whilst non-places, like supermarkets, airports, moterways and hotel rooms, are simply areas "to which people are connected in a uniform manner and where no organic social life is possible. I haven't read in enough depth to fully understand or come to a conclusion on this but it deffinatly interests me. He also comments on the idea of the invasion of non-space, which seems to be a combination of non-place and digital media (computers, TV etc.) and how it is resulting in a "profound alteration of awareness: something we percieve only in a partial and incoherent manner."
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