Anarchism key terms Flashcards
4 key movements to anarchism
- mode of social, political, economic organization in past.
- DIY/punk archaeological methodology in present that leaves trad institutions and authorities (better developed in UK)
- interpretive trope expressed in unstructured, ‘recombinant narratives’ (narrative anarchy)
- participatory, public archaeology that defers archaeological authority
anarchism isn’t really a theory but
its more conceptual framework, overlapping in lots of areas and emphasising non-hierarchical chains
Colleen Morgan talks about
Punk, DIY and Anarchy, in the 60s and 70s
Arch zines
are circulated online to “diggers” and liking Punk Archaeology, championing 1) DIY, 2) place destruction as creative process, 3) spontaneous expression, 4) community
academic punk
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
Malcom McLaren
looked at creating “situations”
Graves-Brown & Schofield
-investigated Sex Pistols living and rehersal space
- recorded graffeti (cartoons, swastikas and doodles)
- musical heritage on Denmark street where they lived
Sex Pistols graffeti
- 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
DIY archaeology
advocacy of countercultural, experience based learning. It was inspired by the Whole Earth Catalog ethic
- 3D printers democritize access
- bridging technology and activism
anarchy and archaeology
thinking of anarchic, counter-hegemonic societies in past
consider anti-hierarchical cast of past societies
conclusions on punk archaeology
best suited for committed, communitarian,
small-scale, local archaeology
archaeology of “care”
celebrating unstructured creativity + critiquing industrial discipline
archaeology as industrial practice
the western world has moved to an ‘industrial model’ of higher education
- new arch hypothesis testing led to methodological standardization
transhumanism and industrial practice
embraces hybrid actor-network theories as hopeful and useful
- recognition of links amongst fieldwork, local knowledge, ritual, and trad ways of valuing artifacts
disciplinary transhumanism
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
‘Linked Open Data’
style of basic data publication that is granular that can be arranged in endless ways
- developped very rapidly and consequences are unknown
archaeology of care conclusions
concerned with reshaping of discipline with networks of “tools, individuals, practices, and methods”
Black Trowel Collective
embracing anarchist archaeology through decolonial, indigenous, feminist + other
critiques! they include human and non-human relations and the environment
Black Trowel Anarchist Archaeology (premises)
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