Week 11: Nowhere, Exactly Repeated

Augé's non-place, found in the car park before you've even reached the automatic door

3 May 2027

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The car park has no identity, no relations, no history — Augé’s non-place, almost too exactly. It performs less of a relationship with you than the store itself does at the threshold, and its identical repetition outside every branch of every chain is precisely the point.

Outline#

• non-place, defined against the store’s own performed welcome
• what repeats, chain to chain, without variation
• the car park as pure threshold