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versely proportional to this velocity, the
importance of every single event is being
decreased. No one has a chance to con-
centrate on thinking about a thing as far
as a new one is coming immediately. As a
result of this situation everything loses its
meaning.
•
Excess of Space: Our planet is not the
only “home” for the human race any more.
Extraterrestrial travel is possible now.
With the new means of travel, it is not
a big issue to have three different meals
in three different cities on the same day.
There is a huge distortion of scale in the
current era which affects the spatial per-
ceptions. Arefi (1999: 179-183), being inf-
luenced by Trancik’s and Newman’s tho-
ughts, explains this situation as
“the pre-
valence of accessibility over proximity has
created an imbalance in the urban setting:
the disruption of place-based communities
accompanied by the loss of meaning and
physical as well as historical connectivity,
proliferation of indefensible and lost spa-
ces and the loss of sense of place.”
•
Excess of Individuality: The capitalist
system limits the collective life and creates
an environment where the person is wor-
king on his own, following her/his daily
routine alone and this circumstance ma-
kes the individual become self-sufficient.
This situation cherishes her/his self-ego
causing an individualization and solitude.
Gamet & Cova (1999: 37-45) claim that
the modern community is the reason of
this solitude. The inventions like washing
machine, TV, fax, tumble dryer replaced
the places that constitute social interaction
such as wash-house, cinema, mail, was-
hing lines between houses.
Placelessness
Another term which is important in identif-
ying “non-place” is placelessness. The loss
of place which is caused by the excesses of
supermodernity brought the sense of pla-
celessness. Edward Relph (1976: 45) cla-
ims that placelessness comprises look-alike
landscapes which are the result of increasing
mobility and imitation in his book entitled
“Place and Placelessness”. This is not a sud-
den constitution, but rather there has always
been such kind of a phenomenon which beca-
me widespread in due course.
Inauthenticity that is a result of mass produc-
tion and industrialization is one of the main
attitudes that constitute the feeling of place-
lessness. The individual started to find his va-
lue in possessing the goods applauded by the
society. The capitalist system paradoxically
makes people believe that they will become
unique if they buy, they become or they beha-
ve on the route of popular (Buchanan, 1999:
393-398).