Future World

Anticipatory Archaeology, Materially Affective Capacities and the Late Human Legacy

Bibliographic Data

ID13014366
AuthorsLeila Dawney (0000-0001-9432-7095, University of Brighton, corresponding author), Oliver J T Harris (0000-0002-2053-9172, University of Leicester), Tim Flohr Sørensen (0000-0003-2473-6963, Sax Institute)
Year2017
Volume4
Issue1
Pages107-129
Publication date2017-12-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2051-3429 • E-ISSN: 2051-3437
PublisherEquinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/jca.32497
OpenAlexW2612017220
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited34

Using the 2010 film Into Eternity as a springboard for thought, this article considers how archaeologies of the future might help us make sense of how to seek commonality and take care across vast temporal scales. The film, about a nuclear waste repository in Finland, addresses the impossibility of communicating across millennia. In thinking with this film, we engage with recent responses to the post-human call, arguing that they are inadequate in dealing with the new questions that are asked by post-human thought. Instead, we attempt to engage the work of Spinoza and Sloterdijk in rethinking the human as a strategic position or point of purchase amongst the shared materiality present and future worlds. We offer the concepts of the materially-affective and atmosphere in order to identify points of connection, drawing on moments in Into Eternity to work through these points in a tentative repositioning of the human as a site of concern

Aesthetics · Business · Epistemology · Eternity · Impossibility · Materiality (auditing · Order (exchange · Point (geometry · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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