A wonderful meeting with intellectual buzz yesterday at MetaMedia Labs with Alison Wylie and the MetaMedia directors. Discussing the interface of intellectual property rights, digital interface and design, engagment with place beyond embodiment, and the future of academic collaboration, matters of new media served as a nodal point connecting thinkers and practitioners in the philosophy…
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Archaeology: A stratigraphic profile by Google.
Google “archaeology” and you will get somewhere around 52,400,000 hits. Though such numbers will vary from time to time. Google lists entries on the basis of their degree of connectivity within the web. So, in some way, the more people who link to a site from their own homepage the more that site will rise…
Tim Ingold on categories of material against materiality
Thanks to Ruth Tringham, Tim Webmoor and I had the opportunity to have lunch and coffee yesterday with Tim Ingold, a Professor of Anthropology and Head of the Department at the University of Aberdeen. Ingold is well known as a creative thinker across both anthropology and archaeology. Much of his work is on human perception…
Unpacking a thing: a map from “Ten things – science, technology and design” February 23, 2006
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…
A comment on “An Archaeology of the Spanish Civil War”
A very powerful piece of writing. Without in any way wanting to take away from your argument in relation to the Spanish Civil War, which is compelling, I would argue that sometimes the ‘blandness’ of archaeological documentation is just as inappropriate to events that occured in the much more distant past. Taking an example from…
An Archaeology of the Spanish Civil War
I was moved by a scene in Atom Egoyan’s film “Ararat” (2002). One of the main characters, a young Canadian of Armenian descent, goes back to Turkey to see the land that witnessed one of the most horrendous genocides of the twentieth century. He contemplates the landscape and films it in video. His gaze is…