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	===Summary===		===Summary===
	An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in fronts of TVs, computers and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls "non-space" results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner.'		An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in fronts of TVs, computers and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls "non-space" results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner.'


	Marc Auge (translated by John Howe)		Marc Auge (translated by John Howe)

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	An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in fronts of TVs, computers and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls "non-space" results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner.'		An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in fronts of TVs, computers and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls "non-space" results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner.'

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	===Definition of Place===		===Definition of Place===

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	Marc Auge defined place as one concered with Relation, Identity and History.		Marc Auge defined place as one concered with Relation, Identity and History.

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	My thesis on [[Cell Phones and Their Technosocial Sites of Engagement]] examines those changes and the experience of and negotiation of space before and after the cultural implementation and adoption of the mobile phone as an extension of the individual.		My thesis on [[Cell Phones and Their Technosocial Sites of Engagement]] examines those changes and the experience of and negotiation of space before and after the cultural implementation and adoption of the mobile phone as an extension of the individual.

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			What is the definition of a place?

			Maggie: hm. Somewhere where something exists?
			7:30 PM
			me: One of my favorite theorists was Marc Auge
			7:31 PM
			He wrote this book with quite a hipster title, "Non-places - an Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity".

			In it, he defined a place as "something with identity, relation, and history".

			Maggie: whoa

			me: So lets go through some examples and determine if one can call something a place or not.

			Lets take an airport for example - what do you think? Place or non-place?

			Maggie: Instinct is to say non-place.
			7:32 PM
			Due to transience of activities that occur there...though they are consistent.

			me: Perfect! Yes.

			The reasoning is this - when one goes into an airport, they have no identity.

			Because they have no identity, they have no relation to anyone else.

			Maggie: ooh
			7:33 PM
			me: And because the airport is something "betwixt and between" here and there, point a and point b, it cannot be lived in.

			And therefore one cannot have any history with it.

			There are exceptions. A frequent traveller may come to be familiar with his or her airport.

			When that airport becomes a place.

			A coffeeshop becomes a place when one becomes a regular, and so on.
			7:34 PM
			What about the city streets?

			Maggie: Tougher. If I ride my bike down the same street every day, I feel it's become a place of transit...

			but people who move down it infrequently....

			Inclined to say a place. There are things that exist permanently along streets, but not on them.
			7:35 PM
			me: Oh. Nicely phrased.

			There's a new area of town in Portland, Oregon. It is called "The Pearl". There exist many areas called "The Pearl, or Pearl District" throughout the US.

			They all house the same demographic, and have the same types of shops and condos.
			7:36 PM
			They are all sites of gentrification, where old buildings have been torn down and new places put up.

			Maggie: Sounds like any box store... Are they established by the same group every time?
			7:37 PM
			me: The curiosity about these places is that the citizens move from one town to another -- they can be in a different geographical place, such as the Pearl in Denver or the Pearl in Portland, but technically it is the same place. Their condo will contain the same things.

			Okay, so here's the real question. Is the Internet a place? And are cell phone conversations a place?
			7:38 PM
			Keep in mind that a non-place is often betwixt and between here and there, a liminal moment that only lasts for a little while, and that places are defined as things attached to identity, relation and history.

			Maggie: Hmmm. I'm inclined to say the cell phone itself is the place. The Net is the .... network being utilized at that time.
			7:39 PM
			So visiting the same network becomes your place. Like AOL used to be ISP AND social space... now that's changed.

			but maybe I'm getting off track. A cell conversation... is tricky to pinpoint.

			me: Great!
			7:40 PM
			So the idea is that there is this new type of space, established through connectivity.

			This space that is betwixt and between. And that is the net - connectivity. And that is what I study.

			In my thesis, I called Actors on the Network Technosocial hybrids.
			7:41 PM
			Because they became actors when they hybridized themselves to become both human and machine, and that hybridization allowed them access to the Network.
			7:42 PM
			Maggie: intense!
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