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Yes, "Very Places", there is no mistake. For those of you who are familiar with the notion of "Non-Places", good for you. For those of you who don't, just read the title of this page as "Places".
Once I was lying in bed feeling an energy deficit and I decided to look for pictures of beautiful, inspiring and special places that I've been to. Pictures that would transport me somewhere where I have already been and would like to go back...
"When an international flight crosses Saudi Arabia, the hostess announces that during the overflight the drinking of alcohol will be forbidden in the aircraft. This signifies the intrusion of territory into space. Land=society=nation=culture=religion: the equation of anthropological place, fleeting inscribed in space. Returning after an hour or so to the non-place of space, escaping from the totalitarian constraints of place, will be just like a return to something resembling freedom."
---Marc Auge
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