https://doismiu.blog/tags/madrid/Recent content in Madrid on doismiu - dispatches from the infernal archiveHugoen-usFri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://doismiu.blog/posts/bernabeu-is-an-airport/Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://doismiu.blog/posts/bernabeu-is-an-airport/<p>Have you seen the new Santiago Bernabeu?. It is a technological marvel. It has a retractable pitch that hides in a cave. It has a 360-degree screen that makes Las Vegas look subtle. It generates money with the efficiency of a Swiss bank.</p> <p>It is also dead.</p> <p><a href="https://www.educationduepuntozero.it/studi-e-ricerche/marc-auge-antropologo-dei-non-luoghio-della-surmodernita.shtml">Marc Augé</a> coined the term &ldquo;Non-Place&rdquo; to describe spaces of transience. Airports. Supermarkets. Hotel chains. Places where human relations are suspended and you are defined solely by your credit card limit.</p>