Artifactual Interpretation
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https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v2i1.27061Keywords:
disciplinarity, humanities, interpretation, materiality, media studies, methodologyAbstract
Media archaeology has thus far been informed by Michel Foucault's largely metaphorical use of the term "archaeology" to denote an inquiry into "the law of what can be said, the system that governs the appearance of statements as unique events." But the discipline of traditional archaeology, its primary concern being the study of how objects mediate our relationship to the past, has much to offer a *media* archaeology. I outline here some of the intellectual affinities between these two disciplines, with notes toward future methodological exchange.
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Gamble, C. 1998. “Palaeolithic Society and the Release from Proximity: A Network Approach to Intimate Relations.” World Archaeology 29(3): 426–444. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1998.9980389
Gillespie, T., P. J. Boczkowski and K. A. Foot, eds. 2014. Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262525374.001.0001
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Jonsson, F. A. 2014. “Victorian Anthropocene, 1834-1884.” Paper presented at the Heyman Center for the Humanities Thursday Lecture Series: Materiality, Columbia University, 17 April.
Kirschenbaum, M. G. 2008. Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kittler, F. A. 1992. Discourse Networks, 1800/1900. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
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Krajewski, M. 2010. Der Diener: Mediengeschichte Einer Figur Zwischen König Und Klient. Auflage: 1. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag.
Leroi-Gourhan, A. 1993. Gesture and Speech. Translated by A. Bostock Berger. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Lykke, N., R. Markussen and F. Olesen. 2008. “‘There Are Always More Things Going On Than You Thought!’ Methodologies as Thinking Technologies: Interview with Donna Haraway.” In Bits of Life: Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology, edited by A. Smelik and N. Lykke, 32–44. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Mackenzie, A. 2010. Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/
mitpress/9780262014649.001.0001
McLuhan, M. 2001 [1964] Understanding Media. London: Routledge.
Munster, A. 2014. “Materiality.” In The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media, edited by M.-L. Ryan, L. Emerson, and B. J. Robertson, 327–330. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Sloterdijk, P. 2012. “Actio in Distans: On Forms of Telerational World-Making.” In Philosophy of Communication, edited by B. G. Chang and G. C. Butchart, 635–648. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Sprenger, F. and C. Engemann. 2014. “DCRL & MECS Summer School 2015: Challenging Methods.” Leuphana Centre for Digital Cultures. Available online: http://cdc.leuphana.com/news/news/blog-article/dcrl-mecs-summer-school-2015-challenging-methods/
Tholen, G. C. 2002. “Media Metaphorology: Irritations in the Epistemic Field of Media Studies.” South Atlantic Quarterly 101(3): 659–672. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-101-3-659
Uricchio, W. 1981. “The Motion Picture as a Resource for Industrial Archaeology.” Industrial Archaeology 3: 233–237.
Vogl, J. 2008. “Becoming-Media: Galileo’s Telescope.” Grey Room 29: 14–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/grey.2007.1.29.14
Williams, R. 2005 [1978]. “Problems of Materialism.” In Culture and Materialism: Selected Essays, by R. Williams, 103–122. London: Verso.
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Wythoff, G. (2015). Artifactual Interpretation. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 2(1), 23-29. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v2i1.27061
