Anarchism key terms

Question 1

4 key movements to anarchism

Answer 1

1. mode of social, political, economic organization in past.
2. DIY/punk archaeological methodology in present that leaves trad institutions and authorities (better developed in UK)
3. interpretive trope expressed in unstructured, ‘recombinant narratives’ (narrative anarchy)
4. participatory, public archaeology that defers archaeological authority

Question 2

anarchism isn’t really a theory but

Answer 2

its more conceptual framework, overlapping in lots of areas and emphasising non-hierarchical chains

Question 3

Colleen Morgan talks about

Answer 3

Punk, DIY and Anarchy, in the 60s and 70s

Question 4

Arch zines

Answer 4

are circulated online to “diggers” and liking Punk Archaeology, championing 1) DIY, 2) place destruction as creative process, 3) spontaneous expression, 4) community

Question 5

academic punk

Answer 5

punks from the 70s are aging and coming into academic roles and bringing new lines of thinking to said roles. looks to evade mainstream ways of education and thinking

Question 6

Malcom McLaren

Answer 6

looked at creating “situations”

Question 7

Graves-Brown & Schofield

Answer 7

-investigated Sex Pistols living and rehersal space
- recorded graffeti (cartoons, swastikas and doodles)
- musical heritage on Denmark street where they lived

Question 8

Sex Pistols graffeti

Answer 8

• signaling inhabitation,
• transient ownership,
• ARRIVAL
  cartoons follow graffiti tradition stylistically
  hate symbols might represent reclaiming or changing meanings and rejecting public decency
  encircled anarchist (A) channels revolutionary affinities

Question 9

DIY archaeology

Answer 9

advocacy of countercultural, experience based learning. It was inspired by the Whole Earth Catalog ethic
- 3D printers democritize access
- bridging technology and activism

Question 10

anarchy and archaeology

Answer 10

thinking of anarchic, counter-hegemonic societies in past
consider anti-hierarchical cast of past societies

Question 11

conclusions on punk archaeology

Answer 11

best suited for committed, communitarian,
small-scale, local archaeology

Question 12

archaeology of “care”

Answer 12

celebrating unstructured creativity + critiquing industrial discipline

Question 13

archaeology as industrial practice

Answer 13

the western world has moved to an ‘industrial model’ of higher education
- new arch hypothesis testing led to methodological standardization

Question 14

transhumanism and industrial practice

Answer 14

embraces hybrid actor-network theories as hopeful and useful
- recognition of links amongst fieldwork, local knowledge, ritual, and trad ways of valuing artifacts

Question 15

disciplinary transhumanism

Answer 15

arch is now characterized by a distributed, networked logic like that of capitalism, rather than by a linear, 20th c assembly-line setup
- this allows for new combinations to emerge

Question 16

‘Linked Open Data’

Answer 16

style of basic data publication that is granular that can be arranged in endless ways
- developped very rapidly and consequences are unknown

Question 17

archaeology of care conclusions

Answer 17

concerned with reshaping of discipline with networks of “tools, individuals, practices, and methods”

Question 18

Black Trowel Collective

Answer 18

embracing anarchist archaeology through decolonial, indigenous, feminist + other
critiques! they include human and non-human relations and the environment

Question 19

Black Trowel Anarchist Archaeology (premises)

Answer 19

1) critiquing power
2) recognizing arts of resistance
3) embracing everyday anarchy
4) visioning futures
5) seeking non-authoritarian forms of organization
6) recognizing heterogeneity of identities
7) exposing multiple scales from bottom up
8) recognizing agency in change and stability
9) valuing heritage of state and non-state societies
10) rejecting overarching paradigms in favour of multiplicity of views and voices
11) heterarchy of authorities
12) decentering the human
13) archaeology of action