"We're all archaeologists" - Revs Symposium 2015
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The document discusses how car collectors should embrace an archaeological mindset in their collecting. It explains that archaeologists work with what remains from the past by encountering artifacts, organizing collections, and providing care. It advocates thinking of cars and their history through concepts like layering, ruins, and change over time rather than just dates. The document suggests that collectors treat their cars as living parts of the past by keeping them engaged through use and repair rather than just storing pieces staticly. It frames collecting as a collaborative effort that shapes how the past matters to the present and future.
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"We're all archaeologists" - Revs Symposium 2015
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- 2. mshanks.com We’re all archaeologists now How and why every car collector should embrace their inner archaeological self Michael Shanks archaeologist, anthropologist, classicist, digital humanist ! The Revs Program at Stanford !
- 4. mshanks.com archaeologists don’t discover the past they work with what remains
- 5. mshanks.com site | artifact | landscape encounter | triage | collection | organization | care
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- 7. mshanks.com duration | actuality | presence archaeological times — think of layering, palimpsest, ruin, entropy, encounter, reanimation, percolation
- 9. mshanks.com active intervention — the animated archive collective memory — not a record of the past but the act of recollection put things in a box and they’ll rot — keeping things alive means keeping them in motion historical significance is always a matter of advocacy the past is not fixed but dynamic
- 10. mshanks.com experiment — performance — theatre/archaeology the rearticulation of fragments of the past as real time event experiences of intervention in the ruin of the past storytelling is a kind of reanimation
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- 15. mshanks.com art and mundanity always connected in a living past
- 17. mshanks.com coevolution we are our things
- 18. mshanks.com deep knowledge and the fragment context means life (things live because they’re connected) but there are always gaps that require conjecture, restoration, reconstruction, fiction narrative can fill the gaps
- 20. mshanks.com heritage — legacy ways the past matters to the present ways we value the past-in-the-present for-the-future the challenge of “the archive”
- 22. mshanks.com always collaborative, dispersed, distributed
- 23. mshanks.com some thoughts for the car collector the car is always an assemblage think less of dates and more of archaeological time — duration, encounter, presence, care a living past requires triage, intervention, engagement, mobilization collecting the past is about choices made for the future rise to the challenge of the archive — it’s who we are and it’s always “we”