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25 August 2026

  • curprev 18:4818:48, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs 4,016 bytes +4,016 Created page with "===Definition=== Supermodernity (''surmodernité'') is Marc Augé's term for the condition of the contemporary world understood as an excess rather than a rupture — not a break with modernity, as "postmodernity" implies, but modernity's own logic accelerated past the point where its categories still function. ===Augé's Three Excesses=== The concept is set out in ''Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity'' (''Non-lieux'', 1992; English translatio..."