[...]>
='strcls'>****sex and aging, defined as the real “physical characteristics” of the body that underpin human experiences ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> usually remains unaltered
(for instance check the TV series Six Feet Under, how David's gay-ness is an intrinsic absolute fact of his body that underpins all his experiences)


we “wear”='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•sex
="lsts lst1">•aging
="lsts lst1">•personal feelings
="lsts lst1">•="nms">Iranian, or German, (basically being anything)
="lsts lst1">•


="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> (basically in all Hollywood ="trms">imaginings and standard archaeology) artefacts are only assigned secondary ="trms">agency ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animacy is not considered as inherent attribute of the artefactual ='strcls'>*** (Gell)
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pots as living organisms subject to processes of growth


(Ingold's) ="trms">ecology of ="trms">materials is characteristic of work that focuses on the inherent vitality of things (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)

='strcls'>*production='lgc'>: an ongoing process that produces both maker and object


(="ppl">Alberti proposes) a change in focus='lgc'>: (from) ='strcls'>*stopped up objects='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--(to)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*leaky things='strcls'>*


in his ="trms">writing ="ppl">Alberti finishes 3 or 4 times his paragraphs with the same characterization of his field='lgc'>: “chronic instability of a ="trms">world constantly at risk of transformation”


“if everything can be human, then nothing is human in a clear and distinct way.”
="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]subjectivity='lgc'>: a condition and outcome of all ="trms">affective ="trms">relations ='lgc'>=/= a capacity that can be awakened in a seemingly inert thing
='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>?! ="trms">transference, (is ="trms">transference an object-oriented account='qstn'>?)


the active ="trms">nature of ="trms">materials refers to their recognized capacity to escape form ='lgc'>: their untrustworthiness


(a paradime for creative arts='lgc'>:) artifactual production ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animal creativity

="large lg1" stl="font-size:119%"> (in Amazonia, and) in ="nms">ajayeb, no distinction is made between thoughts, feelings, body and mind ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> thoughts and actions happen in the same ="trms">ontological space
(="ppl">Alberti > ="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro)

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shift from an ="trms">epistemological to an ="trms">ontological register in theoretical archaeology

critically ="trms">ontological='lgc'>: turning insight back on the archaeological project

(in archaeology='lgc'>:) ="trms">ontology='lgc'> = reality (what there is) / peoples’ claims about reality (a fundamental set of understandings about how the ="trms">world is) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">Alberti='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one can conceptualize ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: as a people's “beliefs about” reality / as people's actual ="trms">ontological commitments (='lgc'>~ people's reality)

="ppl">="ppl">Latour's modes of existence='lgc'>: ="trms">ontological tendencies that exist more or less precariously under the assault of ="trms">modernization

conversion of ="trms">ontological ="trms">questions into ="trms">epistemological ="trms">questions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> de="trms">ontologizing other peoples’ ='strcls'>*="trms">ontological commitments='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Godard">Goda mistook for ideology='lgc'>]

='strcls'>*problem with p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luralizing “reality” is that it might appear to be a form of cultural relativism, (demotion of) “="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= culture (='lgc'>~ cultural beliefs about reality ='lgc'>=/= reality)” ='lgc'>==back='lgc'>='lgc'>==> cultural construction


anti-="ppl">Cartesian, ="trms">relational, and anti="trms">ontological exceptionalism


='lgc'>[a='lgc'>] ="ppl">Heideggerian idea='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*the ="trms">world we encounter is pre="trms">interpretive='strcls'>*

posthuman ='lgc'>~ nonre="trms">presentational ='lgc'>~ rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ='lgc'>~ new ="trms">materialism

(realism='lgc'>: an ="trms">ontological approach)

="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Latour's ="trms">network
="lsts lst1">•Ingold's meshwork (commonality of processes across the ‘life ='lgc'>=/= not life’) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> processes ='lgc'>~ becoming ='lgc'>~ growth ='lgc'>~ decay
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Barad's entanglement (="trms">relations are primary and ="trms">relata are a consequence of relating ='lgc'>==dynamics='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">intra-action ='lgc'>{="trms">phenomenon='lgc'> = experiment ='lgc'>+ ="trms">measuring device ='lgc'>+ techician ='lgc'>+ previous results ='lgc'>+ setting ='lgc'>+ ...='lgc'>})
="lsts lst1">•DeLanda's assemblage (how humans and nonhumans produced ="trms">communities that changed in com="trms">position and through time... ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">linguistic model of context)
="lsts lst1">•

='strcls'>**="trms">relational ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>: stronger your “allies” are, the more reality you can claim='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[= (="ppl">="ppl">Latour's notion of) truth='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[critique of human exceptionalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>] open ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">contingent ="trms">categories='lgc'>: ="trms">phenomena and assemblages are temporary, ="trms">contingent, and unbounded

flat ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: one made ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusively of unique, singular individuals, differing in spatio-temporal scale but not in ="trms">ontological status ='lgc'>--="trms">symmetry='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*to get at ="trms">differences without determining what they are in advance='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- useful for ="nms">ajayeb studies)
="lsts lst1">•archaeological types/objects='lgc'>: reified sets of ="trms">relations
="lsts lst1">•job of the archaeologists='lgc'>: establish alternative taxonomies of being

ruin ="trms">memories

nonre="trms">presentational ='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>{"="trms">world of ideas ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">world of things” ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= the ideas must cor="trms">respond to a truth de="trms">monstrable in the ="trms">world of things='lgc'>}

(Lucas's) ="trms">materialization='lgc'>: we can still say things about the ="trms">past with great certainty

theories ='lgc'>+ ="trms">apparatuses ='lgc'>+ ="trms">material remains

="trms">ontological realism ='lgc'>--claim='lgc'>='lgc'>--> objectivity and truth may be ="trms">contingent but are nonetheless de="trms">monstrable and robust

archaeologist ="trms">ontological approach='lgc'>: working on “="trms">material ="trms">pasts in the ="trms">present” ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ‘how ="trms">past actually gathers in the ="trms">present’ ='lgc'>=/= “="trms">material record='lgc'> = fragmentary evidence of ="trms">history”
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">material's temporary sensitivity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]residue='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the idea of ="trms">memory objects, ="trms">material entities in which the ="trms">memory of a moment in time is recorded

(it is precisely the) ="trms">past ='lgc'>--endures-in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> assemblage


="trms">interpretive endeavors ='lgc'><='lgc'>--characterize='lgc'>-- extension of the meaning of the ="trms">social
="lsts lst1">•="trms">ontology as a new ="trms">interpretive tool
="lsts lst1">•additive (='lgc'>=/= reconstructive)

="ppl">Alberti's approach (in ="trms">ontological equivalence of bodies and pots in ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic ceramics from northwest Argentina...)='lgc'>:
="trms">social ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reconstruct the ="trms">ontologies of ="trms">past ="trms">societies ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>~='lgc'>~ ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> ="trms">ontological archaeology's background in feminism, queer, and ="trms">phenomenological
approaches ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">interest in the body


influence of the ="trms">animal turn in archaeology
non="trms">anthropocentric ="trms">zoological studies

(nomenological explorations of ="trms">animal re="trms">presentations in ="ppl">Attar and ="nms">tasavof)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> what kinds of beings existed within the ="trms">social universe of pre-Columbian Andean peoples

(renovated concept of) animism='lgc'>: ethnographic ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-analogy for ="trms">past ="trms">ontologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> models of ="trms">relationality for archaeologists to ="trms">interpret ="trms">material patterning in the archaeological record

investigations of personhood

(building toward a) taxonomy of ="trms">past ="trms">ontologies ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontological critique

(="ppl">Alberti >) ="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro's project='lgc'>: to ="trms">systemize amerindian thought into a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics such that it can have a reciprocal effect on ="trms">anthropological thought and “="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list” or Western ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics

="large lg5" stl="font-size:132%">

="trms">ontological realism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>{

new ="trms">language attempt to ="trms">imagine the complex topology of ="trms">relational realities='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Latour ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">network='lgc'>: things exists as a consequence of the strength of their ="trms">articulation
="lsts lst1">•Ingold ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> meshwork ='lgc'>=/= Aristotelian hylo="trms">morphism
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Barad ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> entanglement='lgc'> = Quantum physics ='lgc'>+ queer theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> properties belong to the ="trms">phenomena in ="trms">question ='lgc'>=/= inherent to things
="lsts lst1">•DeLanda ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> assemblage='lgc'>: how humans ='lgc'>+ nonhumans produced ="trms">communities that changed in com="trms">position and through time in neolithic and bronze age

assemblage ='lgc'>--replace='lgc'>='lgc'>--> context

assemblage='lgc'> = ="trms">phenomena ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> temporary, ="trms">contingent, unbounded

="ppl">="ppl">Latourian critique of ="trms">categories ='lgc'>=/= beyond human cor="trms">relationalism

p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luralizing ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> charges of relativism ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ‘objective knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">contingent foundations’ ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nonre="trms">presentational approach ='lgc'>=/= over ="trms">interpretation, abstraction

="trms"nttrm="search">archeology operates by seeking strong and effective ="trms">articulations between theories, ="trms">apparatuses, ="trms">material remains

="trms">ontological realism (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">naturalism, constructivist) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> objectivity and truth are ="trms">contingent, but also de="trms">monstrable and robust
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Chloe


="trms">material record='lgc'>: an expression of ='strcls'>**how ="trms">past gathers in the ="trms">present='strcls'>** (='lgc'>=/= fragmentary evidence of ="trms">history ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- forensic approach)

="trms">past continuously un="trms">folding and therefore changing


Alberi ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">social) ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: a new ="trms">interpretive tool
additive work (='lgc'>=/= reconstructive)

="trms"nttrm="search">archeological accounts of other's ="trms">ontologies

="trms">animal turn in ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> non="trms">anthropocentric ="trms">zoological studies
Willerselv
="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro

Amazona ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> animism (more than any other ="trms">anthropological ="trms">material) has provided modes of ="trms">relationality to ="trms"nttrm="search">archeologists to ="trms">interpret ="trms">material patterning in ="trms"nttrm="search">archeolo[...]