ESSAY text by MARC AUGÉ artwork by DOUG AITKEN french anthropologist and sociologist marc augé writes about non-spaces, supermodernity, human mobility, and our relation to history. The subject of this text is the future. Not the future in the sense of “what is to come”. That is a somewhat myopic concept that we project without much thought onto ill-defined groups (“What future are we shaping for our children?”) when we talk, again without much thought, of our presumed inadequacies (“We are accountable for the future of our children”) or our hopes (“Science is the future”). Not that future, but the future as a time of conjunction, the most concrete time of conjunction if it is true that the present is always ungraspable, ever retreating with the ceaseless passage of time; and that the past is always obsolete, irremediably finalized or forgotten. The future as life in the process of being…