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Chris Tilley - mythographic triptych (annotated)

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In Tilley's garden - a summer long ago

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Chris Tilley

I heard this morning that Chris Tilley died last night in Brighton UK. A shock of loss and then sadness at what has gone, and also what might have been — he had just always been there, after so much we shared when we were much younger. Intellectual and collegial companionship at its best. From 1978 to 1991 we collaborated in a passion for archaeological thought, to raise the bar on standards of…

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Update: December 2022 - slow archaeology

Update: December 2022 – slow archaeology

“Our brains aren’t designed for multitasking”, my dear friend Cliff Nass, mathematician, cognitive scientist and psychologist, warned me a good long while ago. “It will slow you down and cloud your reasoning.” OK — I’m still working on the same big three projects as back then. But I am quite sure that my research and thinking have evolved most significantly and in ways I could not have…

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#Aisin #Bard Graduate Center #Biprogy #Cliff Nass #Gary Devore #Ladby #Larry Leifer #Mike Pearson #Ng Humanities House #Nissan #Roskilde University #Sophia Colello #Stanford Continuing Studies #Stanford H-Star #Stanford Humanities Lab #Stanford Learning Lab #Stanford mediaX #University Southern Denmark #Valley Breeze Consulting

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Mike Pearson - theatre/archaeology

Mike Pearson – theatre/archaeology

Mike Pearson died last week. He was a performance artist, theatre director, theorist and philosopher, scholar and teacher. And, as composer John Hardy said, Mike collaborated and connected – visual design, architectural stagecraft, poets, playwrights, composers, experimental jazz musicians, dancers, disability & gender specialists, comics, community art conveners, museum curators, traditional…

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Mike Pearson

Mike Pearson died last week. It is quite a shock to his many friends and colleagues. I’m composing a tribute to his extraordinary qualities, talents, works. I hadn’t quite appreciated how much there is to say and it is taking longer than I anticipated. In the meantime here is a short statement that appears alongside others in Nation.Cymru [Link]. It was more than 30 years ago that Mike arrived…

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Studio update - Spring 2022

Studio update – Spring 2022

This academic year I am on sabbatical leave finishing three long-running projects and planning to focus more on applications of the archaeological imagination to matters of common and pressing contemporary concern, especially through design foresight and futures literacy. This is why I have put to one side my critical commentary on all things archaeological and made few posts here at mshanks.com…

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#Bill Cockayne #Gary Devore #Kimi Iwamura #Larry Leifer #Mike Pearson #Natalia Pulyavina #Stanford mediaX #Tamara Carleton #Victor Taratukhin

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Last Stand of the Hunter-Gatherers? - Archaeology Magazine

Last Stand of the Hunter-Gatherers? – Archaeology Magazine

we need to change our mindsets and master narratives   The 11,000-year-old stone circles of Göbekli Tepein modern Turkey may have been monuments to avanishing way of life Source: Last Stand of the Hunter-Gatherers? – Archaeology Magazine

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the limits of reason

the limits of reason

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through a glass

# ataraxia #through a glass

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ataraxia 3

[Link] [Link] [Link] … prehistoric monsters at the limits of reason … [Link]

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Thomas the Rhymer

Thomas of Ercildoune and the tower at Bemersyde. Project Borderlands – [Link]. In the wake – Walter Scott, Wizard of the North – 1831 – [Link]. Durat Opus Vatum – Thomas Percy 1765.

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Kronos and the stone

Kronos and the stone

The limits of rationality and prehistoric creatures. Todten-Kopff – [Link]

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ataraxia 2

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sampling and re-presentation

Sampled pigments from mine tailings. Amelia Colliery, Shankhouse, Cramlington, Northumberland UK. Closed 1938. One of many coal mines in south east Northumberland. Non-representation. Post-phenomenology. Part of project Borderlands – [Link]

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On the politics of (museum) exhibition

On the politics of (museum) exhibition

More about the future (potential) of museums I was at a very thought provoking talk today at Bard Graduate Center [Link]. Yannis Hamilakis told us about an exhibition he has helped curate that is currently running at Haffenreffer Gallery, Brown University USA. It is called Transient Matter: Assemblages of Migration in the Mediterranean. Yannis leads a research team who have been visiting a…

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#Annemartine van Kesteren #Bard Graduate Center #Boijmans van Beuningen #Design Column #Haffenreffer Gallery #Yannis Hamilakis

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insignificants

A marvelous talk today at Stanford from Tim Flohr Sørensen (Copenhagen) about his project – Insignificants – [Link]. So much in such a beuatifully simple report of an experiment. Archaeologists often pride themselves on taking up what is overlooked, insignificant, discarded as irrelevant, detritus, mere traces, garbage. But what does this involve? What happens when we deliberately focus upon…

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#Tim Flohr Sørensen