Post-Medieval Archaeology ( IF 0.4 ) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 , DOI: 10.1080/00794236.2022.2120709 Geneviève Godin 1
SUMMARY
This article approaches the masses of discarded things washed ashore and roaming waterways as the new monsters of the Anthropocene. It explores the ways in which monstrosity and archaeology intersect, and how the genre of horror simultaneously emerges from and informs the current epoch. As they embark on their post-abandonment journey, things’ immense scale, spread, and refusal to serve as proxies for human narratives result in the impossibility of fully grasping and making sense of them. Combining archaeological approaches and queer theory, this article attempts to get to the heart of the inevitable, complex entanglements between people and monstrous Others.
中文翻译:
可怕的事物:恐怖、他者化和人类世
概括
这篇文章将大量被冲上岸和漫游水道的废弃物视为人类世的新怪物。它探索了怪物与考古学的交叉方式,以及恐怖类型如何同时从当前时代出现并影响当前时代。当他们踏上被遗弃后的旅程时,事物的巨大规模、传播和拒绝充当人类叙事的代理,导致无法完全掌握和理解它们。本文结合考古学方法和酷儿理论,试图触及人与可怕的他者之间不可避免的复杂纠葛的核心。