I gave a lecture for Michael Shank’s Ten things class yesterday. I laid out a road map for taking a thing and unpacking it. I offered examples from my own work with maps. But in the lecture I worked closely with Bruno Latour’s excellent thesis (which pulls together work by S. Alpers, E. Eisenstein and…
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Heideggerian Technemataology
The philosophy of Martin Heidegger has received much attention in archaeology since the 1990s (Gosden 1994; Thomas 1996; Dobres 2000; Karlsson 2000). Along with Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger has been the great influence in phenomenological archaeology. It is quite striking that it is the most intractable Heidegger, that of the first period (Being and Time, 1927), that…