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A hands-on excavation of the past and the present
Archaeology is slow, meticulous work. It involves looking carefully for slight variations in ceramic composition, stone fragmentation, or bone morphology. During excavations, copious data is collected because a site can never be excavated again—archaeology is an unrepeatable experiment.
Imagine if you could only ever see someone, someplace, or something once. How carefully would you behold this object? Drawing on this archaeological philosophy and ideas from Donna Haraway’s “Situated Knowledges,” this seminar offers methods for challenging algorithmic and machinic ways of noticing and knowing.
Archaeological methods are rigorously subjective; archaeological knowledge is shaped by what and how individuals notice. What and how we notice is fundamental to what and how we know. This seminar attempts to produce uncontrollable knowledge. To this end, we will engage in hands-on archaeological techniques of noticing and recording using actual tools of the trade (e.g., plumb bobs, sieves, flotation buckets), along with philosophical explorations of measurement, meaning, and materiality.
Led by Scott W. Schwartz, professor of anthropology at City College of New York and author of Losing Interest and An Archaeology of Temperature.
Wednesdays, 6:30-9:00pm
December 2-16
Our courses cost $250, with a Supporter rate for students with an income above 100k. We also offer a Supported rate for students with constraining circumstances.
Please see our Refund Policy HERE.
Additionally, we offer three tuition-waiver scholarships per course. To apply for a scholarship, click HERE.
Image credit: "The Gypsy Girl" mosaic of Zeugma. Original public domain image from Gaziantep Museum of Archeology.
A hands-on excavation of the past and the present
Archaeology is slow, meticulous work. It involves looking carefully for slight variations in ceramic composition, stone fragmentation, or bone morphology. During excavations, copious data is collected because a site can never be excavated again—archaeology is an unrepeatable experiment.
Imagine if you could only ever see someone, someplace, or something once. How carefully would you behold this object? Drawing on this archaeological philosophy and ideas from Donna Haraway’s “Situated Knowledges,” this seminar offers methods for challenging algorithmic and machinic ways of noticing and knowing.
Archaeological methods are rigorously subjective; archaeological knowledge is shaped by what and how individuals notice. What and how we notice is fundamental to what and how we know. This seminar attempts to produce uncontrollable knowledge. To this end, we will engage in hands-on archaeological techniques of noticing and recording using actual tools of the trade (e.g., plumb bobs, sieves, flotation buckets), along with philosophical explorations of measurement, meaning, and materiality.
Led by Scott W. Schwartz, professor of anthropology at City College of New York and author of Losing Interest and An Archaeology of Temperature.
Wednesdays, 6:30-9:00pm
December 2-16
Our courses cost $250, with a Supporter rate for students with an income above 100k. We also offer a Supported rate for students with constraining circumstances.
Please see our Refund Policy HERE.
Additionally, we offer three tuition-waiver scholarships per course. To apply for a scholarship, click HERE.
Image credit: "The Gypsy Girl" mosaic of Zeugma. Original public domain image from Gaziantep Museum of Archeology.