O não lugar - Marc Augé

The video, "The Non-Place Is and How I...", is about a French anthropologist and ethnologist responsible for defining the theory of non-place. This theory was very important for understanding contemporary society. According to the French anthropologist, place consists of spaces in which individuals develop deeper relationships, such as residences. However, with the advancement of technologies and

current modernity, we arrive at the concept of non-place as a space where the individual does not have a contractual relationship, represented by symbols of supermodernity. As examples of non-place, we can cite high-traffic public spaces such as commercial buildings, bus stations, and airports— spaces where simple tickets and meetings lead to rapid and momentary transit, in the form of "poisons of God, remedies

of the devil." The Mozambican writer Mia Couto uses the concept of non-place throughout the book, and to establish the relationship between the work and the theory, it is necessary to analyze the following sentence: " Deep down, the Portuguese were not a person, but a race that walked alone in the details of an African village. To hell with

Rosa." The Portuguese doctor who goes to the African continent for work loses his connection with his homeland and... Throughout the narrative, the inhabitants of the village see him as a stranger, and they don't establish new affective relationships in that place. Thus, it can be said that the doctor experiences firsthand the theory of "not being in a place"

in relation to the African territory. Furthermore, the Portuguese man doesn't go to Mozambique for the country itself, but for a work relationship linked to self-interest. You understand, Linda? All these transitions made possible by modernity and globalization lead the doctor to lose his own direction and moment in the plot, also characterizing a relationship of "