Originally, the notion of polyagency pertained to the causative capabilities of materialities and intangibilities in more or less a humanocentric way, similar to Gell’s agency concept (Normark 2004a, 2004b). However, now I see it as a phase of becoming and the word agency here relates to something active. Poly means many, and both words together…

Can we rely on materialities, objects or humans in archaeological analyses? What should our basic categories of analysis be? What do the humans and non-humans share that make them create a network? Symmetrical archaeology suggests that we should not give primacy to the human while we study archaeological remains. To this I agree (Normark 2004a,…

Polyagentive archaeology works from the understanding of two realities of the world; the virtual and the actual. The virtual (V1) The non-empirical and immanent level of polyagentive archaeology is the level of virtual (qualitative) multiplicities (Bergson 1998, 2001, 2004; Deleuze 1991, 1994). The virtual is a nonnumeric duration which is impossible to split up. It…