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Finding the Future in the Past: Object Orientations Between Innovation and Anticipation

Finding the Future in the Past: Object Orientations Between Innovation and Anticipation

Meyer, Caspar
Versluys, Miguel John

Paperback

Series: Bard Graduate Center - Cultural Histories of the Material Wo

AnthropologyArchaeologyAncient History General

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 19, 2027

ISBN10: 1941792472
ISBN13: 9781941792476
Publisher: Bard Graduate Center
Published: Feb 19 2027
Pages: 336
Language: English

Bringing together innovative contributions from archaeology, anthropology, and material culture studies, this volume reframes objects as active participants in shaping the future.

From ancient technologies to ritual assemblages and global networks, each chapter shows how things orient human action toward possibilities not yet realized. Drawing on case studies that range from ancient Rome to pastoral Eurasia, the contributors foreground the material and relational foundations of creative action, bringing close contextual analysis into dialogue with recent work in new materialism, distributed creativity, and possibility studies. Finding the Future in the Past shows that archaeology can recover not just what was, but also what might become--and, in turn, reopen our sense of what might still be possible.

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