Things. And people. Assemblages of materials, making, consumption, discard. People-and-things. Our modes of existence. In spite of how central things are to being human, there is no word that encompasses the connection, and certainly no discipline of things. I suggest Pragmatology: the theory and practice of pragmata (because I am fascinated by etymology and all…
Mike Pearson died last week. He was a performance artist, theatre director, theorist and philosopher, scholar and teacher. And, as composer John Hardy said, Mike collaborated and connected – visual design, architectural stagecraft, poets, playwrights, composers, experimental jazz musicians, dancers, disability & gender specialists, comics, community art conveners, museum curators, traditional Japanese theatre performers, Patagonian farmers,…
I have contributed little to this site Since 2016. I have been writing (Greece and Rome: a new model of antiquity [Link]), running experiments in fieldwork (Project Borderlands [Link]), exploring applied archaeology (with a host of organizations and corporations), asking questions of the proper role of the academic, the researcher, the scholar. In this contemporary…
July 2017. While over the last few months I’ve neglected posting my ideas, thoughts, news and commentary here at mshanks.com, I’ve had a fascinating series of encounters with some wonderful people, organizations and businesses. And I am preparing some posts – I greatly value the process of logging this learning journey I am so lucky…
In the early 90s I started working with Mike Pearson*, performance artist, founder and artistic director, with Cliff McLucas, of theatre company Brith Gof. Our common interests: forms of (re)collection, the gatherings of memory practices; and site and locale – where different events and times endure and come together in the material forms of inhabited…
to come Archaeography Archaeolog Archaeographer Thinking-through-things CDR Metamedia/Pragmatology Academia.edu Research Gate Google Scholar various Stanford sites various archives
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