The Archaeology of Machinic Consumerism: The Logistics of the Factory Floor in Everyday Life

Roller, Michael P.

doi:10.1007/s41636-018-0149-0

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“…Wynne‐Jones's redirect gestures toward another tack that archaeologists are taking to address present‐day precarity, and that is by deconstructing and critiquing the historical social relationships that have preconditioned contemporary neoliberal capitalism (Wurst and Mrozowski 2014). An example comes from a conversation instigated by the work of Roller (2019), who asserts that after World War I, a Machine Age of mass consumerism arose in the United States to obscure the inequities of capitalism behind a veneer of democratic accumulation. A cult of consumer desire was developed to, on the one hand, create a market for mass‐produced goods but also to socialize new immigrant laborers into accepting the exploitative conditions of a Fordist political economy.…”

Section: Archaeologies Of Precaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Confronting the Present: Archaeology in 2019

Rosenzweig

2020

American Anthropologist

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Postmodernity has a distinctly pre‐apocalyptic feel to it, and this feeling has seeped into archaeology. A review of the scholarship from 2019 attests that archaeologists are having to reckon with present‐day conditions and phenomena as they structure their research, delineate the material world, and affirm archaeology's relevance. Furthermore, these concerns have moved from the realm of the rarely spoken and come to constitute a critical conversation in the field. In a number of respects, the contours of archaeology now hinge upon the discipline's responses to developments in real time, including: How can archaeological knowledge production escape the logistical and epistemological bounds of late capitalism and its failures? Can archaeology contribute to future‐building, and what would that look like? Does archaeology have to be scholar‐activism to achieve the goal of making the past matter (to whom) (for what)? [archaeology, contemporary archaeology, future archaeology, current issues]

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Section: Archaeologies Of Precaritymentioning

confidence: 99%