topics

archaeology - media - performance - photography - classification and databases - land and place - collection - heritage - cultural ecology - ethnography - technoscience

• Symmetrical archaeology new thinking beyond the aporias of archaeology

• Stanford archaeological theory - a new reading group at Stanford

• archaeolog.org a new collective weblog exploring archaeological thinking

• Archaeology - implications for writing history - a microlecture in a wiki by Michael Shanks

• Critical Studies in New Media - a workshop at Stanford Humanities Center, funded by the Mellon Foundation, hosted by Fred Turner and Michael Shanks

• Garbology Online - thinking about The Garbage Project over its 32 year life history - from Bill Rathje

• Metamedia - a discussion document http://metamedia.stanford.edu/~mshanks/metamedia.pdf from the consolidation of the lab in 2003

• Matters of metamedia in contemporary archaeology - a talk - http://metamedia.stanford.edu/~mshanks/projects/metamedia-talk.html

• Media archaeology and http://metamedia.stanford.edu/~mshanks/weblog/index.php?cat=15 - entries in Michael Shanks's blog

• Michael Shanks's weblog - covering all things archaeological

• see also his online publications - [link]

• Media - eigenvectors - defining the design chracteristics of media in the light of information science and technology - a conversation between Sam Schillace and Michael Shanks

• Symmetrical Archaeology - reconfiguring relationships with the material past

• Theatre/Archaeology - http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/projects/MichaelShanks/758 - from Mike Pearson and Michael Shanks