Elizabeth Murphy, Brown University In a recent article entitled “The Textility of Making,” Tim Ingold deconstructs what he describes as the hylomorphic model of creation (2010). This model views the material world according to conceptions of matter and form and tends to perceive material as static, finished products of preconceived human thought. In response to…
Month: December 2010
Giordano Bruno and St. Nick by the Fire
Santa Claus (courtesy of Coca-Cola ®) Since this is Christmas Eve, it might do well to try following a Christmas tradition. Or perhaps its intriguing antithesis in this brief speculation. Giordano Bruno said, “To think is to speculate with images.” Of course Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy in 1600 in Rome, and…
Part 1 of Moving on to Mobility: Archaeological Ambulations on the Mobile World
Ho-Yeol Ryu. Flughafen (2005). This is the first of four pieces on movement in archaeology. It part of an extended conversation that circulated around the authors’ co-chaired session on ‘movement’ at the TAG US conference held at Brown University, May 2010, (http://proteus.brown.edu/tag2010/8050). The idea for this Archaeolog piece, that is split into four parts, arose…