In Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of the trace, the concepts of presence and absence intertwine. This intertwining stands against the illusion of Western philosophy of presence as the complete and final origin of things. In 2023, it happened that I was working in the city of Shahat for two consecutive months. […]
Archaeopoetic
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The search for archaeological finds is part of the human search for everything that exists outside. The seeker of archaeological finds is a sorrowful person looking for a strange and beautiful stone to distance themselves from the meaning of absence. Archaeological finds have a dual history: one horizontal, looking toward […]
Archaeology has long searched—through the tunnel of eternity, with an almost unbearable bitterness—for a way out of the traditional understanding of the archaeological site. There is also a serious quest for a new narrative to replace the old one, which archaeologists have constructed from the material remains of the past. […]
“In 2006, driven by growing dissatisfaction with the state of archaeological theory, despite its importance in university archaeology departments across many Western European countries, we joined forces to organize a provocative session during the 12th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Kraków. Just as Roland Barthes had […]