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Archaeological heritage in the age of digital colonialism
Archaeological Dialogues Pub Date : 2020-11-13 , DOI: 10.1017/s1380203820000239
Monika Stobiecka

Digital archaeologists claim that their practices have proven to be an important tool for mediating conflict, ensuring that the digital turn in archaeology entails engaging in current political issues. This can be questioned by analysing a copy of the Syrian Arch of Triumph. The original was destroyed in 2015. A year later, a copy was carved out of Egyptian marble; the replica was constructed thanks to digital documentation, which allowed archaeologists to create a 3D model. The arch was placed in various Western locations; however, it never reached Syria. Hybridity, the cultural and political significance of the arch’s replica and its ‘Grand Tour’ invite us to think about different interpretive layers of this artefact of ideological discourse (ontological, epistemological, ethical). In this paper, the replica of the Syrian arch will be analysed through the frameworks of post-colonial theory and technology studies. Both perspectives provide an insight into promising advantages and alarming drawbacks of such digital practices. This paper argues that the case of a copy of the Syrian Arch of Triumph on the one hand reflects the contemporary colonial technocracy in heritage politics (an ethical dimension), and on the other demonstrates that an ideological aspect of its digital reconstruction emerges from a speculative anticipation of what might constitute the universal value of world heritage in the future (an onto-epistemological dimension).

中文翻译:

数字殖民主义时代的考古遗产

数字考古学家声称,他们的实践已被证明是调解冲突的重要工具,确保考古学的数字化转变需要参与当前的政治问题。这可以通过分析叙利亚凯旋门的副本来质疑。原件于 2015 年被毁。一年后,用埃及大理石雕刻了一份副本;复制品是借助数字文档构建的,这使考古学家能够创建 3D 模型。拱门被放置在西方的各个地方;然而,它从未到达叙利亚。拱门复制品的混合性、文化和政治意义及其“大巡演”邀请我们思考这一意识形态话语(本体论、认识论、伦理)的不同解释层。在本文中,叙利亚拱门的复制品将通过后殖民理论和技术研究的框架进行分析。这两种观点都提供了对此类数字实践的有希望的优势和令人担忧的缺点的洞察。本文认为,叙利亚凯旋门的复制案例一方面反映了遗产政治中的当代殖民技术统治(伦理维度),另一方面表明其数字重建的意识形态方面来自投机预测未来世界遗产的普遍价值(本体认识论维度)。
更新日期:2020-11-13
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