- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- The Relationship between Ethnoarchaeology and Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past: a Historical Investigation
- Forensic Archaeology
- Anthropological Approaches to Contemporary Material Worlds
- The Place of Things in Contemporary History
- Canonical Affordances: The Psychology of Everyday Things
- To the Things Themselves Again: Observations on What Things are and Why They Matter
- STS, Symmetry, Archaeology
- Actor-Network-Theory Approaches to the Archaeology of Contemporary Architecture
- Global Media and Archaeologies of Network Technologies
- Performance and the Stratigraphy of Place: Everything You Need to Build a Town is Here
- Time
- Absence
- Ruins
- Memory
- Authenticity
- Sectarianism
- Afterlives
- Waste
- Heritage
- Difference
- Modernism
- Protest
- Homelessness
- Conflict
- Disaster
- Scale
- Aluminology: An Archaeology of Mobile Modernity
- The Archaeology of Space Exploration
- Contemporary Archaeology in the Postcolony: Disciplinary Entrapments, Subaltern Epistemologies
- Archaeologies of Automobility
- Archaeology of Modern American Death: Grave Goods and Blithe Mementoes
- ‘A Dirtier Reality?’ Archaeological Methods and the Urban Project
- Heritage and Modernism in New York
- Checkpoints as Gendered Spaces: An Autoarchaeology of War, Heritage, and the City
- Race and Prosaic Materiality: the Archaeology of Contemporary Urban Space and the Invisible Colour Line
- Photo Essay: Institutional Spaces
- Between the Lines: Drawing Archaeology
- Two Riots: the Importance of Civil Unrest in Contemporary Archaeology
- The Materiality Of Film
- The Burning Man Festival and the Archaeology of Ephemeral and Temporary Gatherings
- Olympic City Screens: Media, Matter, and Making Place
- Material Animals: An Archaeology of Contemporary Zoo Experiences
- Photo Essay: On Salvage Photography
- Silicon Valley
- Building Thought into Things
- Archaeologies of the Postindustrial Body
- The Material Cellphone
- The Contemporary Material Culture of the Cult of the Infant: Constructing Children as Desiring Subjects
- VHS: A Posthumanist Aesthetics of Recording and Distribution
- Autoanthropology, Modernity, and Automobiles
- Photo Essay: The Other Acropolises: Multi-Temporality and the Persistence of the Past
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This project uses the photography of the interiors of buildings to inquire into the ways in which the character of a community reveals itself at a moment in time. Reflexively focused on a provincial British university, it considers spaces that construct and inscribe hierarchies, operate as vehicles for collective management, and produce social and psychic relations. It is also concerned with the nature of institutionalization, and the ambiguous ways that members of institutions retain necessary fictions of personal identity. In focusing on the ordinary and the everyday the photographs question the way significance is attributed. In the tradition of surrealism, they affirm the neglected and the overlooked as subjects for archaeological reflection and examination, and the complex ambiguities of the photograph as a subversive vehicle for uncovering meanings unintended by discourses of power.
Keywords: photography interiors, institutionalization, community, identity, surrealism, subversive
Peter Metelerkamp, Department of Drama: Theatre, Film and Television, University of Bristol.
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- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- The Relationship between Ethnoarchaeology and Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past: a Historical Investigation
- Forensic Archaeology
- Anthropological Approaches to Contemporary Material Worlds
- The Place of Things in Contemporary History
- Canonical Affordances: The Psychology of Everyday Things
- To the Things Themselves Again: Observations on What Things are and Why They Matter
- STS, Symmetry, Archaeology
- Actor-Network-Theory Approaches to the Archaeology of Contemporary Architecture
- Global Media and Archaeologies of Network Technologies
- Performance and the Stratigraphy of Place: Everything You Need to Build a Town is Here
- Time
- Absence
- Ruins
- Memory
- Authenticity
- Sectarianism
- Afterlives
- Waste
- Heritage
- Difference
- Modernism
- Protest
- Homelessness
- Conflict
- Disaster
- Scale
- Aluminology: An Archaeology of Mobile Modernity
- The Archaeology of Space Exploration
- Contemporary Archaeology in the Postcolony: Disciplinary Entrapments, Subaltern Epistemologies
- Archaeologies of Automobility
- Archaeology of Modern American Death: Grave Goods and Blithe Mementoes
- ‘A Dirtier Reality?’ Archaeological Methods and the Urban Project
- Heritage and Modernism in New York
- Checkpoints as Gendered Spaces: An Autoarchaeology of War, Heritage, and the City
- Race and Prosaic Materiality: the Archaeology of Contemporary Urban Space and the Invisible Colour Line
- Photo Essay: Institutional Spaces
- Between the Lines: Drawing Archaeology
- Two Riots: the Importance of Civil Unrest in Contemporary Archaeology
- The Materiality Of Film
- The Burning Man Festival and the Archaeology of Ephemeral and Temporary Gatherings
- Olympic City Screens: Media, Matter, and Making Place
- Material Animals: An Archaeology of Contemporary Zoo Experiences
- Photo Essay: On Salvage Photography
- Silicon Valley
- Building Thought into Things
- Archaeologies of the Postindustrial Body
- The Material Cellphone
- The Contemporary Material Culture of the Cult of the Infant: Constructing Children as Desiring Subjects
- VHS: A Posthumanist Aesthetics of Recording and Distribution
- Autoanthropology, Modernity, and Automobiles
- Photo Essay: The Other Acropolises: Multi-Temporality and the Persistence of the Past
- Index