Definitions
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- noun That which is not a
place but has some aspects of one, such ascyberspace .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Marc Augé, who coined the term nonplace, defines them as places that are not concerned with identity or are not "relational."
PopMatters 2010
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Marc Augé, who coined the term nonplace, defines them as places that are not concerned with identity or are not "relational."
PopMatters 2010
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The idea is basically that Web 2.0 is a contemporary "nonplace" - a place without the embedded history that defines spaces anthropologically.
PopMatters 2010
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The idea is basically that Web 2.0 is a contemporary "nonplace" - a place without the embedded history that defines spaces anthropologically.
PopMatters 2010
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The drive south out of Seoul runs through a man-made muddle I call a "nonplace," a fractured landscape that is neither town, nor village, nor countryside.
Seoul James Card 2009
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To Westlake, Branson is a nonplace; like Disney World or Vegas, it could be anywhere.
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While the Internet beckons brightly, seductively flashing an icon of knowledge-as-power, this nonplace lures us to surrender our time on earth.
The Internet? Bah! 2008
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Mr. DeLillo is not the sort of writer to provide obvious answers, but Lauren's encounters with Mr. Tuttle lead to much metaphysical and linguistic speculation: "There has to be an imaginary point, a nonplace where language intersects with our perceptions of time and space, and he is a stranger at this crossing, without words or bearings."
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There has to be an imaginary point, a nonplace where language intersects with our perceptions of time and space, and he is a stranger at this crossing, without words or bearings.
THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001
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There has to be an imaginary point, a nonplace where language intersects with our perceptions of time and space, and he is a stranger at this crossing, without words or bearings.
THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001
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