In her article ‘A taphonomy of a dark Anthropocene’, Alexandra Ion responds to and criticizes my discussion around the topic of archaeology and the Anthropocene recently published in this journal. She takes issue with most of my central arguments and especially with my leaning towards object-oriented ontology, speculative realism and the like, describing my perspective as one that is literally dark and depressing and which may lead nowhere but to a dead end. While I make it clear that I will neither answer for nor shield myself behind other peoples’ articulations of OOO, I will in what follows react to Ion's rather harsh critique and use the opportunity to sharpen my arguments further by focusing on three central themes: first, OOO and the archaeological object; second, darkness, dead ends and knowledge of things; and third, ethics, politics and responsibility.

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黑暗启蒙的歌词。回应亚历山德拉离子

在她的文章“黑暗人类世的墓葬”中，Alexandra Ion 回应并批评了我最近发表在本期刊上的关于考古学和人类世主题的讨论。她对我的大部分核心论点提出异议，尤其是对我倾向于面向对象的本体论、投机现实主义等，将我的观点描述为一个字面上是黑暗和令人沮丧的，并且可能只会导致死胡同。虽然我明确表示我不会为其他人对 OOO 的表述做出回答或保护自己，但我将在下文中对 Ion 相当严厉的批评作出反应，并利用这个机会通过关注三个中心主题来进一步加强我的论点：首先，OOO和考古对象；第二，黑暗、死胡同和对事物的认识；第三，道德，