Nico Carlucci
In his latest Marc Augé reads an essay published a few years ago and dedicated to the underground "supermodernity" (The metro revisited , Raffaele Cortina Editore, 2009).
Moreover, a scientist always thinks back to what is written above in the light of new questions. The French anthropologist in some way, reinterprets the category of "no place" that made him famous. Bankruptcy
of science? No, this is a continuous interchange with the culture and experience that makes the individual at the time of his study "lonely." The subway charms
because it is in the bowels of the earth. During the dark night of winter comes early on it a few women and many men. And the reason is clear!
Well, sure its trains are traveling in a "global" stations that are followed, Racing and foreign exchange, girls and boys running up and down. You can see the fashion with his moods, rhythms and colors of the moment, the nuances of sounds heard with the i-pod that will accompany the work of your new day. It 's a parade of people dressed in "festive" by means of piercing, tattoos and hair color, sex in ties and tricks, along with a few wrinkles "camp." You
near the veiled woman in a black Islam, sideburns, or Kyrgyz eyes of immigrants. In the metro
meetings near and far, the smells of oriental travel, shopping bags full of items of "global". It 's our contemporary world in a deep excavation, where people circulated for several reasons: to achieve' s office, schools, hypermarkets, home, loved ones. His wagons, covered with graffiti decorations and advertising are a fact of planetary zoo animals "strange" to see flow, one after the other, links the station with their particular names, in a ritual no longer sacred.
And high up in the galleries and see the computer takes over his people "transnational" in this "no place", indeed, that thus becomes an extraordinary adventure.
"Metro" is the daily take and read in the depths of the Earth, is the "home-world" of globalization. In fact, you find it in New York, Milan, Hong Kong, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, London, Oslo and so on.
"Metro" is the newspaper of "non-places" as are graffiti and spray covering cars, railway carriages, all that is the trajectory of art, out now from the closed space of the museum falling, without knowing it, in "real time" in the Western myth of supermodernity.
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