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"This is a website created by the archaeologist Johan Normark.
The website is dedicated to an archaeological perspective that
downplays the importance of the human. It is posthumanocentric, or
prehuman in a sense since it focuses on processes that forms
materialities, humans and other entities. Like
posthumanist theorists, I have questioned what a human is. I claim that
there is nothing essential in the human from where we can define the
human. According to this reasoning, the human needs to be decentralized
from the archaeological record in the initial phase of research. She
cannot be used as an a-priori starting point. I take the consequence of
this argument one step further away from what I call an essentialist
humanocentrism in archaeology. Humanocentrism works from a static and
generalized view of human and culture. I am preparing several articles
and four books on what I call posthumanocentric or polyagentive
archaeology.
I
am currently working on four projects (each aimed to be published as a
book): (1) Continuing the development of the posthumanocentric
archaeology through readings of the philosophers Deleuze, DeLanda,
Bergson, Nietzsche and Spinoza. (2) Climate changes in southern Mexico
and how they relate to settlement changes around caves. (3) Study the
face in Maya iconography and ceramics in order to point out the
non-human components of an emerging subjectivity. (4) Investigating the
meshing of temporalities in various material media. These four projects
intersect with each others since the emerging subjectivity and
settlement changes will be analyzed from a posthumanocentric perspective
where different temporalities mesh with materialities."
"I am guilty of proposing an alternative form of ”material agency” called polyagency which, in my dissertation thesis (2006:156), is defined as a “collective term for intensive processes between actualized entities whose virtualities generate a multitude of transformations.
Polyagency consists of four interrelated concepts that describe
inseparable phases of becoming: the in-between, individuation,
stratification and the time-shelter. These intensive processes also
occur in the formation of actual entities where there is no human
relation. Polyagency is used to explain how matter and materiality
changes in encounters”.
This was
clearly influenced by Deleuze and Bergson. However, the very term agency
does not come from them. It comes from the anthropologist Alfred Gell
and the sociologist Anthony Giddens which were great inspirations in my
earlier licentiate thesis. In my subsequently published articles on
causeway assemblages I ditched polyagency and polyagents as terms since
some people confused it with Latour’s actants (although Latour
emphasizes a completely actualized perspective where processes of
emergence are lacking).
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