“Marc Augé coined the term non-lieux [non-places] to describe specific kinds of spaces, chiefly architectural and technological, designed to be passed through or consumed rather than appropriated, and retaining little or no trace of our engagement with them. These spaces, principally associated with transit and communication, are for Augé the defining characteristics of the contemporary period he calls ‘supermodernity,’ the product and agent of a contemporary crisis in social relations and consequently in the construction of individual identities through such relations.”

5.1.13

Week 11--- 3/18

Read your Reading #4 handouts: (Auge) Non-Place  and (Foucault) Heterotopias

Visit these supplementary websites:  Symbolic and Structural Approaches to Place
and Symbolic and Structural Approaches to Michel Foucault: "Of Other Spaces"

If necessary, revisit the two videos provided on our blog concerning Heterotopias.

Write a five- seven page 12pt double spaced research paper comparing and contrasting Non-Places and Heterotopias.

Be sure to include a short bio of Auge and Foucault in paragraphic form and a CLEAR summary of each topic. Feel free to use other sources for your research, as long as you site them.

Bonus Points (worth 10 on your paper!)
Include a paragraphic discussion of Almada's film and how its subject matter applies to non-place and heterotopias. Consider this quote by Almada:

  "When I first went to film at the cemetery where the film takes place in July 2009, there were four new mausoleums under construction and a tractor was digging up the dirt for a new hole to bury another 300 bodies," says filmmaker Almada. "The 'progress' of the cemetery mirrored the violence that was spiraling out of control."

Also, you may want to reference this site to clarify some thoughts about cemeteries, heterotopias and non-places. 
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