This academic year I am on sabbatical leave finishing three long-running projects and planning to focus more on applications of the archaeological imagination to matters of common and pressing contemporary concern, especially through design foresight and futures literacy. This is why I have put to one side my critical commentary on all things archaeological and…
movement and migration
Manifesto for archaeology of flow
an extract from a new book on the archaeology of rivers and other flows of materials. It argues that rivers are as susceptible to archaeological and historical analysis as more solid parts of landscapes are.
Part 4 of Moving on to Mobility: Archaeological Ambulations on the Mobile World
Motion capture of superimposed images of a moving pole (Étienne-Jules Marey c.1900) Fluid interdependence “While the body moves, movement is not only in the body, but in the world around …” (Posted by Oscar on Oct 15/2009 04:17AM) Fluid interdependence as a concern emerges by attaching significance to things not as closed systems that are…
Call for Papers CHAT 2011: Boston University ‘People and Things in Motion’. November 11 – 13 2011
To mark the first Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) conference to take place outside of the British Isles, the 2011 conference theme will explore people and things in motion in both the historical and contemporary pasts
Part 3 of Moving on to Mobility: Archaeological Ambulations on the Mobile World
(Potsdamer Platz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-00843,_Berlin,_Verkehrsturm_auf_dem_Potsdamer_Platz.jpg) IN-BETWEENESS and CHIASMA “… it is an aspect of time (as you say), but also boundaries and definitions – things don’t end where we delimit them” (Posted by Brad on Oct 13/2009 11:14AM) “ .. Movement is critical as the glue in connecting … ” (Posted by Oscar on Oct 15/2009 04:17AM)…
Part 2 of Moving on to Mobility: archaeological ambulations on the mobile world
Marey’s chronophotographic gun (1882). OBSERVATION “How does this [materialisation of movement] work for us and contend with moving projects in the way that Latour and Yaneva think about it in ‘Give me a gun and I will make a building move: An ANTs view of architecture’ [(2008)] and Tschumi in Architecture and disjunction [(1996)]: namely…