Machine-Created Culture

Essays on the Archaeology of Digital Things and Places

Dr. Andrew Reinhard (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

136 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-570-6 (ISBN)

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Archaeology can be weird and fun, especially the digital kind. Readers of archaeology, media studies, and game studies are introduced to the wild-and-wooly side of digital archaeology: artifacts, sites, and landscapes contained within—and supporting—interactive digital built environments. Follow your guide, the reluctant digital archaeologist Charlie, to disappear into the weeds of post-landscapes, non-place cultural spaces, persistent digital spaces, software citizenship, machine-created culture, digital drift, technofossils, quantum archaeology, archaeological time, singularities, complexity and retrocausality, noise, and more. These bite-sized chapters offer new ways of interpreting humanity’s blossoming digitalia, an archaeology done at the source of creation, use, and abandonment of our electronic selves.

Andrew Reinhard is a Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Project Director for Metcalf Archaeological Consultants and is also a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University. His first book, Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games, was published by Berghahn Books in 2018.

Introduction

Chapter 1. Post-Landscape Archaeology

Chapter 2. Psychogeography of Software and User Interfaces

Chapter 3. Non-Place Cultural Spaces

Chapter 4. Abandonment

Chapter 5. Human Archaeology in Persistent Digital Spaces

Chapter 6. Software Citizenship

Chapter 7. Machine-Created Culture

Chapter 8. Digital Drift

Chapter 9. Technofossils and the Technosphere

Chapter 10. Mobile Homes in the Multi-Verse

Chapter 11. Archaeological Debt

Chapter 12. Quantum Archaeology

Chapter 13. Archaeological Time

Chapter 14. The Singularity Already Happened

Chapter 15. Archaeological Complexity, Anticipation, and Retrocausality

Chapter 16. Archaeological Noise

Chapter 17. More Technology, More Problems

Conclusion

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2024
Reihe/Serie	Digital Archaeology: Documenting the Anthropocene
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-570-X / 180539570X
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-570-6 / 9781805395706
Zustand	Neuware