Part 2 of a review of Confronting Classics, by Mary Beard [Link]. Some tactics for challenging the orthodox monologue of academic Classical Studies and opening space to hear other voices. What is Classical Studies about? Mary Beard argues that Classics is not about ancient Greece and Rome at all, but about what happens in the…
archaeological imagination
the archaeological circuit
Archaeologists work with what remains. Here’s a new version of my diagram that aims to grasp the components of this process, this field, this circuit (I like all the connotations of field and circuit, involving energy flows, connections of roots and branches, rhizomatic webs and pathways). Read moreArchaeology – [Link]The archaeological imagination – [Link]
Ruins – Josef Koudelka
Thoughts on the universality and valency of ruination. With a comment about the toppling of statues of erstwhile heroes. A couple of months ago Alain Schnapp was talking with me about his new book, a universal history of ruins, an exploration of an archaeological sensibility that takes us back to antiquity [Link]. I have just…
et in Arcadia ego (3)
Project concept: et in Arcadia ego – [Link] Ravens’ Pike, Boonville, California. (Thanks to Rich Green for the loan of his remarkable Leica Monochrom)
Janus – hindsight and foresight, creative pragmatics
We are moving on with our JANUS research initiative (core team Victor Taratukhin, Natalia Pulyavina, myself) – [Link]. Our case is that being mindful of the past, hindsight, is essential to being able to act for the future. Looking back, researching and exploring, that we might be better prepared for uncertain futures. JANUS – archaeological…
Heritage – actuality and performative pragmatics
Published next month – Chinese translation of my essay on heritage as actuality, with a case study from the Roman north. [Link] to 2012 version in English.
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