That Raw and Ancient Cold: On Graham Harman’s Recasting of Archaeology
| Autor: | Tim Flohr Sørensen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Filosofi sources Historie Objekt-orienteret ontologi History hot and cold media B1-5802 Art history Epistemology dark matter Object-Oriented Ontology 0601 history and archaeology Philosophy (General) Metafor Arkæologi 060101 anthropology 060102 archaeology Uncertainty archaeology 06 humanities and the arts traces Philosophy Archaeology Mørkt stof history Faculty of Humanities |
| Zdroj: | Open Philosophy, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-19 (2021) Sørensen, T F 2021, ' That Raw and Ancient Cold: On Graham Harman's recasting of archaeology ', Open Philosophy, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1-19 . https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0151 |
| ISSN: | 2543-8875 |
| Popis: | This is a comment to Graham Harman’s 2019 response to an article by Þóra Pétursdóttir and Bjørnar Olsen (2018) in which they propose that a materially grounded, archaeological perspective might complement Harman’s historical approach inImmaterialism(2016). Harman responds that his book is indeed already more archaeological than historical, stipulating that history is the study of media with a high density of information, whereas archaeology studies media with a low density of information. History, Harman holds, ends up in too much detail, while archaeology has the advantage of lending itself to the imagination. Hence, his reading of history had the aim of tempering the historical information overload, in effect making the book a work of archaeology. In this comment, I want to do three things: (1) critique the idea that archaeological and historical media are inherently different with regard to their densities of information, (2) discuss how archaeology and history approach their media, and (3) reflect on conceptualisations of “archaeology” outside the discipline itself. |
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