tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86943222011-06-08T06:09:47.083Zcaveat lectorElpenorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18375103120157265431noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694322.post-1121497181951417962005-07-16T06:23:00.000Z2005-07-16T14:23:13.583Z

Is Theory over? Is It in its twilight days? There's a vigorous discussion going on over at the Valve about Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent (edited by Daphne Patai and Wilfrido Corral and published in May).Why not join the party?You can find the first post announcing this 'book event' here (in case it's already fallen off the blog's front page), but it appears they've put all contributing

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And, ladies and gentlemen, so are we. Not that we've been slacking. No way, José. We've been out spreading truth near and far throughout the blogosphere, one click at a time. We were just cruisin' along, and -- lo! -- an all points bulletin comes crackling in through our radio from deep within the Delta Quadrant: archaeolog.com is back in action! Could it be true? We had our doubts... But then we

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Engaged in a recent peripatetic Étude, two Trireme Veterans found themselves momentarily trapped in a dire modernist predicament. Here we see them in their heroic but vain struggle to close the conceptual gap between Nature and Culture, as they reflexively contemplate their relationship to the landscape, its uses and re-uses, built environment and the material residue of the past as well as its

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The Trireme Veterans would like to thank Alun over at Blogographos and David Meadows at Rogueclassicism for linking to us on their sites. I think we're getting an uptick in traffic.The Web does all sorts of wonderful things with information. One of the great things that blogs do is enable people to carry on 'conversations' about a countless number of things.Classics sites have been doing a great

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(Click me!)God bless 'im. Today he would have turned 196 years old (thanks to Pharyngula for the tip -- and for doing the math). I was doing some catch-up today and reading over some of Dr Shanks's more recent posts. Did anyone read the one on 'Creationism, Intelligent Design and Redefinitions of Science'? Were you a little confused? Me, too. Does he like evolution? Dislike it? Did he like it

Elpenorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18375103120157265431noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694322.post-1106950265377752572005-01-28T22:11:00.000Z2005-01-28T22:31:32.046Z

Dana Stevens, TV and pop culture blogger at Slate, shares some interesting thoughts about the Discovery Channel's special Pompeii: The Last Day: In the recent (and excellent) documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself, the director and film scholar Thom Andersen makes the argument that disaster movies tend to appear at moments when a culture is in crisis about the legitimacy of authority (hence the

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The Trireme Veterans will soon celebrate our three months of survival in the Internets -- and the three months since Jacques Derrida shuffled off this mortal coil. We never paid our respects. In a small gesture to remedy this we republish below the obituary written by Fafnir of the incomparable Fafblog, whose eloquence is beyond our capacities: flowers for derridaJacques Derrida died yesterday.

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Earlier today Dr Shanks published some posts with his thoughts on the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference held last month in Glasgow. He appears to have enjoyed the proceedings but throws in this choice jab at his own American students:But it was encouraging to see so many very well prepared and presented papers at TAG. Their average quality far surpassed that of even the better graduate

Elpenorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18375103120157265431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694322.post-1104916591069581522005-01-05T09:00:00.000Z2005-01-06T02:14:49.473Z

Just read Prof. M. Shanks's post about an item of installation art called "Die Familie Schneider"; here is his conclusion: The archaeological sensibility says that we only ever have fragments to work upon, that every locale is a potential scene of crime where anything could be relevant, that there remains to much to be discovered beneath the surface of things, and much that we will not like,

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Interesting point, Elpenor. Do you suppose we could rearticulate that tired debate about no democracies ever going to war against one another, and ask, instead, whether democracies are inherently imperialistic? Athens is the trump, of course. Freedom from intense agricultural labour for Athenian citizens required vast agricultural plantations outside Attica, in Bulgaria. Roman latifundia (sort

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Well, I thought the Cal State Fresno classics professor and modern-day Cincinnatus had left it a long time ago. But he's not just hanging his political pundit shingle up in Wingerville -- he's putting his roots down deep. Laura Rozen at War and Piece sets some of the record straight: Victor Davis Hanson gets an important fact wrong, writing: "Imperialism" and "hegemony" explain nothing about

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A few months ago I was intrigued by Michael Shanks's thoughts on counterfactuals (maybe it was his remark that 'history is all about things that didn’t happen' that drew some anomalous readings on our truth-o-meter). I was going to make some remarks, but time passed and more interesting things came along. Like enchanted islands full of hobbits and giant lizards and midget elephants. (Please,

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So good to hear from you again, MoveOnAlready.org! I'm so glad to hear you're alive and well, still scribbling down theses after all these years -- have you moved on already from Feuerbach to the archaeological world? Let's catch up soon -- things must be so different from what they were behind the curtain.

Elpenorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18375103120157265431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694322.post-1100077416929747192004-11-10T08:45:00.000Z2005-02-23T05:51:48.033Z

Nosdrovje, every one !I have found following maxims in online archaeological forum. Maybe of interesting ! Those who repeat the past are doomed to forget it. We are alienated from the past, indeed from life, only to the extent that we notice we are alienated. We cultivate memory, but should we not also cultivate oblivion? The denial of objective truth is a very subjective judgment.

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…to our little corner of the blogosphere!

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