‘A book in a room’ – Three Landscapes Philosophers of Technology are not a well established bunch. While they form even less of a ‘tradition’ of study in Europe, they do take their earliest progenitor to be the Continental thinker Martin Heidegger (Achterhuis 2001; Ihde 1983, 2005). It seems strange that thinking carefully about what…
media archaeology
Digital Desiderata: the Future of Archaeology’s ‘Second Life’ in Augmenting Media (1.1)
A conversation at the Metamedia Lab with Torin Golding (avatar), the creator of ROMA, the largest archaeological site in SecondLife. Digital technologies are changing the nature of scholarship. Far from an exception, archaeology too is changing. It may be that archaeology is traditionally thought of as a ‘down and dirty’ profession, done ‘out there’ in…
History on the Line, Davis Square
Christina J. Hodge, MA, PhD, RPA Senior Curatorial Assistant, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, Boston University The Oxford English Dictionary (2008) defines time as a “space” or “extent of existence” and “the interval between two successive events or acts.” Timelines exemplify this definition. Entrenched methods of representing…
Presentation of the creative, relativist and multicultural blog of the Neixón hillforts archaeological project (Galicia, Spain)
Xurxo Ayán Vila (Spanish Higher Council of Scientific Research) David Blanco Míguez (University of A Coruña) The Internet must be seen as a social phenomenon and its spatial properties should be critically interrogated… Our cultural archaeological production is today implicated in the discourses and contestations of identity, social roles and representations, in new ways, through…
Hero! Real archaeology and ”Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”
All three previous movies about Indiana Jones have become quintessential adventure films. But how does Indy compare to real archaeology? asks Cornelius Holtorf who teaches archaeology and heritage studies (kulturarv, kulturmiljö) at the University of Kalmar in Sweden.
Between Media Archaeology and Memory Practices: Two Recent Excavations
The recent opening of Paul Clancy’s “The Search for the Soul of a Building” in Providence, RI provided occasion for me to resurrect a languishing Archaeolog entry I had started back in the late spring and which has been annoyingly stapled to may desktop every since. Regarding the exhibition, Clancy’s subtext is what drew my…