An Archaeology of Temperature - Numerical Materials in the Capitalized Landscape (Hardcover)

Building on discussions in Contemporary Archaeology this book challenges the border between material and discursive culture, advocating for a novel conception of capitalism's artifacts. The artifacts examined within (temperatures) are instantaneous electric pulses, algorithmic outputs, and momentary fluctuations in mercury. The artifacts of the capitalized never sit still, operating at subatomic and solar scales. Temperatures, as numerical materials precariously straddling the colonially constructed nature-culture divide, exemplify the abstraction necessary to pursue the perpetually accelerating asymmetrical growth of wealth-a pursuit that engenders multiple environmental and economic calamities. This book offers indispensable contributions to science studies, urban geography, semiotics, the philosophy of materiality, the history of thermodynamics, heterodox economics, performative scholarship, and queer ecocriticism.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Archaeologies of the Contemporary World
Release date:	November 2021
First published:	2022
Authors:	Scott W Schwartz
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	8
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-202573-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeological theory Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > General
LSN:	1-03-202573-5
Barcode:	9781032025735

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