The famous French anthropologist, ethnologist and Africanist Marc Augé (Poitiers, 1935) offers today, 7 October, the conference 'El futuro que llega' ('The future that comes'),at the Centre Cultural La Nau. Belonging to the generation of leading contemporary thinkers, Augé speaks at the University of Valencia about the idea of the future, the title of his latest essay. For Augé, the idea of the future is mortgaged by the shortcomings and fears that always exist in the present.
In 'Future' (Adriana Hidalgo Editor, 2013), Augé argues from a more global perspective on science and social change. In this sense, a future marked by communication technologies and social networks is not equivalent to a better world unless it is accompanied by real knowledge with a better education. The former director of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris for a decade (1985-1995) recalls, in this approach to the future, one of his most important contributions, the concept of "non-places", such spaces of the contemporary and completely anonymous, due to the fact that they belong to nobody and yet, they are shared: airports, supermarkets and motorways.
Author of reference books, such as' Hacia una antropología de los mundos contemporáneos ' (1995), 'Los no lugares. Espacios del anonimato '(1993) or ' El viajero subterráneo. Un etnólogo en el metro '(1998), the intervention of Augé constitutes the inaugural conference of the Inter-university Master's degree in Cultural Management program (University of Valencia - Polytechnic University of Valencia) and enrolls in the Claustre Obert programming, the space for discussion created by the University of Valencia, through the Department of Culture and Equality, and the newspaper El Pais. In addition, it has the support of the French Institute of Valencia.
The conference, which will be hosted and moderated by the Vice Chancellor of Culture and Equality at the University of Valencia, Antonio Ariño, begins at 18:30 in the assembly hall of the University historic building , and is going to be live broadcasted on the Internet through the University TV , Mediauni (http://mediauni.uv.es/tv). Marc Augé's intervention will be in French with simultaneous translation into Spanish.
Last update: 7 de october de 2013 07:48.
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