Avatars, Monsters, and Machines
A Cyborg Archaeology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7175017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Morgan (0000-0001-6907-5535, University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 324-337 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-9571 • E-ISSN: 1741-2722 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/eaa.2019.22 |
| OpenAlex | W2944009959 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 56 |
As digital practice in archaeology becomes pervasive and increasingly invisible, I argue that there is a deep creative potential in practising a cyborg archaeology. A cyborg archaeology draws from feminist posthumanism to transgress bounded constructions of past people as well as our current selves. By using embodied technologies to disturb archaeological interpretations, we can push the use of digital media in archaeology beyond traditional, skeuomorphic reproductions of previous methods to highlight ruptures in thought and practice. I develop this argument through investigating the avatars, machines, and monsters in current digital archaeological research. These concepts are productively liminal: avatars, machines, and monsters blur boundaries between humans and non-humans, the past and the present, and suggest productive approaches to future research
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Liminality · Posthumanism · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |