Michael Shanks ~ archaeologist

chorography

et in Arcadia ego (2.2)

June 14, 2020June 18, 2020 by Michael Shanks

Project: Et in Arcadia ego – [Link] Ravens’ Pike, Boonville, California.

Posted in chorography, figure in a landscape, genius loci, haecceity, materialities

Heritage – actuality and performative pragmatics

May 14, 2020June 5, 2020 by Michael Shanks

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.

Posted in actuality, archaeological imagination, archaeology, borderlands, chorography, critical heritage, critical theory, deep mapping, future of the past, heritage, media matters, museums, Pearson|Shanks, ruins and remains, theatre-archaeology

Update – the actuality of the archaeological past

April 28, 2020June 11, 2020 by Michael Shanks

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…

Posted in actuality, archaeological imagination, archaeology, art-archaeology, Binchester-Vinovium, borderlands, cars, chorography, cityscapes, Classics, collection, contemporary art, contemporary past, critical design, critical heritage, critical theory, cultural politics, d.school, deep mapping, design matters, disciplinary practices, ethnography, foresight, heritage, innovation, museums, ontology, presence, Revs at Stanford, Stanford Foresight and Innovation, strategic foresight, the academy, urban futures Tagged A.N. Whitehead, Anna Tsing, Binchester, Bjørnar Olsen, Boijmans van Beuningen, Bruno Latour, Chris Witmore, Connie Svabo, David Kelley, Dewey, Donna Haraway, Gabriella Giannachi, Gary Devore, Gilles Deleuze, Heidegger, Henri Bergson, Isabelle Stengers, Larry Leifer, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michel Serres, Nick Kaye, Revs at Stanford, Richard Rorty, Rosi Braidotti, Rotterdam, Rotterdam IAB, Theodor Adorno, Tim Webmoor, Walter Benjamin, Yuriko Saito

Ossian – archaeological memory

February 28, 2020July 5, 2020 by Michael Shanks

Project: Borderlands – [Link] Toscar: I shall sit in my cave in the field of the sun. The blast will rustle in my trees, and I shall think it is the voice of Culhona. Culhona: What cloud is that? It carries the ghosts of my fathers. Locale, genius loci, weather, voices on the wind, the…