Archaeological Encounters: Ethics and aesthetics under the mark of the Anthropocene
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Archaeological Encounters : Ethics and aesthetics under the mark of the Anthropocene. / Pétursdóttir, Þóra; Sørensen, Tim Flohr.
I: Archaeological Dialogues, Bind 30, Nr. 1, 2023, s. 50-67.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Archaeological Encounters
T2 - Ethics and aesthetics under the mark of the Anthropocene
AU - Pétursdóttir, Þóra
AU - Sørensen, Tim Flohr
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - What legitimizes archaeological work in an age of global climate change, socio-political crises and economic recession? On what topics should archaeology focus its research questions, and what forms of archaeological engagement are not merely justifiable but able to make a difference in light of such challenges? Today, there is a tendency, we argue, that archaeological responses to current challenges are expected to align with a specific mode of conduct, political stance and genre, where, for example, a very particular notion of activism, responsibility and ethics is dominating. There is no denial that current challenges call for immediate instrumental reactions, but we contend that valuable reactions can – or even must – vary, and that more fundamental and slow ontological and epistemological change should also be nested within these responses. In this article, we explore what it means to care – what it means to be concerned – in the Anthropocene through archaeological practice and aesthetic engagement. By highlighting the relations between ethics and aesthetics, we explore ways in which we get in touch with the objects of concern, placing undecidability and speculation as dispositions equally important to urgency and impact.
AB - What legitimizes archaeological work in an age of global climate change, socio-political crises and economic recession? On what topics should archaeology focus its research questions, and what forms of archaeological engagement are not merely justifiable but able to make a difference in light of such challenges? Today, there is a tendency, we argue, that archaeological responses to current challenges are expected to align with a specific mode of conduct, political stance and genre, where, for example, a very particular notion of activism, responsibility and ethics is dominating. There is no denial that current challenges call for immediate instrumental reactions, but we contend that valuable reactions can – or even must – vary, and that more fundamental and slow ontological and epistemological change should also be nested within these responses. In this article, we explore what it means to care – what it means to be concerned – in the Anthropocene through archaeological practice and aesthetic engagement. By highlighting the relations between ethics and aesthetics, we explore ways in which we get in touch with the objects of concern, placing undecidability and speculation as dispositions equally important to urgency and impact.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Etik
KW - Æstetik
KW - Arkæologi
KW - Antropocæn
KW - Posthumanisme
KW - Spekulation
KW - Feminisme
KW - Ethics
KW - Aesthetics
KW - Archaeology
KW - The Anthropocene Era
KW - Speculation
KW - Posthumanism
KW - Feminism
U2 - 10.1017/S1380203823000028
DO - 10.1017/S1380203823000028
M3 - Journal article
VL - 30
SP - 50
EP - 67
JO - Archaeological Dialogues
JF - Archaeological Dialogues
SN - 1380-2038
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 325453311