Beginning work with Bill Rathje and David Platt on a paper for a special issue on archaeology and modernism for the journal Modernism/Modernity This is how we begin with the World Trade Center There is something profoundly archaeological about the experience of 9/11 and its aftermath. Less than a month after the attack a meeting…
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Materialities of Media
Onomy Labs Over at Anne Balsamo’s place. Tilty table – tilt the table and the picture projected on it moves. Wonderful. As Joe Adler pointed out – a new way of scrolling, of flying across a picture or document – and it could be the size of a football field. New physical and embodied interfaces…
the anarchaeological
Abram just sent me this picture by Juan Carlos Castro of Reistertown, MD. It appeared in Adbusters. Hygienic. Contrast the photographs I posted last month, and remember the archaeological fascination with the constitution of place. I recall the anthropologist Marc Augé is into this kind of non-place.
situationist manifesto
Just managed to get a look at a video Abram found – Call it sleep. A siutationist manifesto/documentary. Excellent. Here it is.
Scratchy archaeologies
Snippets of a conversation with Abram last night. 10:05PM Abram I saw a great documentary on the whole dj/turntablism phenomenon. Its amazing – they take a record player and use it for something completely different than it was designed for. Misuse is great fun. 10:10PM Michael Philip Jeck – I’m sure I mentioned him to…
Photographing the archaeological
I notice a few recent books by photographers who are into abandonment and decay – me monitoring sensitivity to the archaeological, as usual. I particularly like ReadyMades: American Roadside Artifacts by Jeff Brouws. — here are some drive-in movie screens Pictures of old pickup trucks, abandoned gas stations (he has a lovely series in black…
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