That Raw and Ancient Cold: On Graham Harman’s Recasting of Archaeology

This is a comment to Graham Harman’s 2019 response to an article by Þóra Pétursdóttir and Bjørnar Olsen (2018) in which they propose that a materially grounded, archaeological perspective might complement Harman’s historical approach in Immaterialism (2016). Harman responds that his book is indeed a...

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Autor principal:	Sørensen Tim Flohr
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Publicado:	De Gruyter 2021
Materias:	archaeology history hot and cold media sources traces dark matter Philosophy (General) B1-5802
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:99706f38bf9f42b289a6395d7570e1832021-12-05T14:11:00ZThat Raw and Ancient Cold: On Graham Harman’s Recasting of Archaeology2543-887510.1515/opphil-2020-0151https://doaj.org/article/99706f38bf9f42b289a6395d7570e1832021-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0151https://doaj.org/toc/2543-8875This is a comment to Graham Harman’s 2019 response to an article by Þóra Pétursdóttir and Bjørnar Olsen (2018) in which they propose that a materially grounded, archaeological perspective might complement Harman’s historical approach in Immaterialism (2016). Harman responds that his book is indeed already more archaeological than historical, stipulating that history is the study of media with a high density of information, whereas archaeology studies media with a low density of information. History, Harman holds, ends up in too much detail, while archaeology has the advantage of lending itself to the imagination. Hence, his reading of history had the aim of tempering the historical information overload, in effect making the book a work of archaeology. In this comment, I want to do three things: (1) critique the idea that archaeological and historical media are inherently different with regard to their densities of information, (2) discuss how archaeology and history approach their media, and (3) reflect on conceptualisations of “archaeology” outside the discipline itself.Sørensen Tim FlohrDe Gruyterarticlearchaeologyhistoryhot and cold mediasourcestracesdark matterPhilosophy (General)B1-5802ENOpen Philosophy, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-19 (2021)
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description	This is a comment to Graham Harman’s 2019 response to an article by Þóra Pétursdóttir and Bjørnar Olsen (2018) in which they propose that a materially grounded, archaeological perspective might complement Harman’s historical approach in Immaterialism (2016). Harman responds that his book is indeed already more archaeological than historical, stipulating that history is the study of media with a high density of information, whereas archaeology studies media with a low density of information. History, Harman holds, ends up in too much detail, while archaeology has the advantage of lending itself to the imagination. Hence, his reading of history had the aim of tempering the historical information overload, in effect making the book a work of archaeology. In this comment, I want to do three things: (1) critique the idea that archaeological and historical media are inherently different with regard to their densities of information, (2) discuss how archaeology and history approach their media, and (3) reflect on conceptualisations of “archaeology” outside the discipline itself.
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That Raw and Ancient Cold: On Graham Harman’s Recasting of Archaeology

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