{"id":1962,"date":"2014-05-15T13:51:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T13:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2014-05-15T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T13:51:50","slug":"material-seas-political-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2014\/05\/15\/material-seas-political-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"Material seas and political acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Seascape after sunset, 2007, Rodrigo Nuno Bragan\u00e7a da Cunha\" href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/20\/2014\/05\/800px-Seascape_after_sunset.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1966\" alt=\"800px-Seascape_after_sunset\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/20\/2014\/05\/800px-Seascape_after_sunset-466x310.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monday was wonderfully watery\u00a0at the <a title=\"Symposium webpage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rwa.org.uk\/whats-on\/events\/2014\/05\/poweroftheseasymposium\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Water and Beyond <\/a>symposium. Our session was truly interdisciplinary, with papers from an artist, literary scholar, archaeologist and anthropologist all converging on questions of maritime space, modernity and material seas.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"John's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ambivalency.net\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">John Hartley<\/a> discussed Deleuze, DeLanda and his own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambivalency.net\/kayakconstruction.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Contingency Research Platform<\/a>, an absolutely amazing piece of marine hacking\/boat building art. Julia Heunemann\u2019s paper on Jules Verne, <a title=\"Matthew Fontaine Maury\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matthew_Fontaine_Maury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Matthew Maury<\/a>, ocean currents and messages in bottles offered insights into, among other things, knowledge produced by the sea itself. <a title=\"Hannah's University of Manchester staff profile\" href=\"http:\/\/staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/Profile.aspx?Id=Hannah.Cobb\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Cobb<\/a> and I presented material from her work on Mesolithic Oronsay, my Keralan backwaters ethnography and our own journey into maritime space. Add to that <a title=\"Andrea's University of Leeds staff profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.design.leeds.ac.uk\/people\/andrea-thoma\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Thoma<\/a>\u2019s paper about her 2012 video work \u2018Ocean\u2019 from the earlier\u00a0&#8216;Experimental Seascapes&#8217; session and it was a rare\u00a0afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2003\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"The raw materials for John's kayak - Contingency Research Platform\" href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/20\/2014\/05\/hartley-desksm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2003\" alt=\"hartley-desksm\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/20\/2014\/05\/hartley-desksm-466x350.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contingency Research Platform &#8211; the raw materials<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2002\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Kayak frame (made from the desk) lashed together - Contingency Research Platform\" href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/20\/2014\/05\/hartley-wiredtogethersm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2002\" alt=\"hartley -wiredtogethersm\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/20\/2014\/05\/hartley-wiredtogethersm-466x247.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contingency Research Platform &#8211; Kayak frame (made from the desk) lashed together<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Skinned with business suits - Contingency Research Platform.\" href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/20\/2014\/05\/Hartley-kayakbeachedsm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2004\" alt=\"Hartley-kayakbeachedsm\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/20\/2014\/05\/Hartley-kayakbeachedsm-466x308.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contingency Research Platform &#8211; skinned with business suits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Among all this maritime thinking, I was particularly struck by one observation during the discussion. It was pointed out that there was a political thread running through each paper in the session.<\/p>\n<p>Our seas and oceans are often understood only as space to be traversed, where resources are exploited, as metaphors for our ideas and concerns, or as abstract, legal space (\u2019territorial waters\u2019 or \u2018the high seas\u2019). These understandings cast maritime space as a passive backdrop against which human action takes place (as nature set in opposition to culture). In contrast,\u00a0 articulating the ways in which maritime space is always historical, material, social <em>and political <\/em>is a key concern in my research\u00a0&#8211; and the reason I began exploring assemblages and material seas.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this is not what has resonated with me most since Monday\u2019s session.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I have been contemplating how addressing the world in a non-anthropocentric way, beginning with a \u2018flat ontology\u2019 and allowing that both people and things as resonant with capacities to act and affect <em>is itself a political act<\/em>. If we understand ourselves <strong><\/strong>simply<strong> <\/strong>as\u00a0a part of multiple, continually-emerging, human-nonhuman assemblages, it alters fundamentally our position within the world. \u00a0It requires a profound re-shaping of ethical, political and legal debates. In fact for <a title=\"Jane Bennett's John Hopkins staff profile\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalscience.jhu.edu\/bios\/jane-bennett\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bennett<\/a>, a political theorist, this understanding of the world offers the foundation for a more responsible, ecologically sound politics.<\/p>\n<p>It also has energising consequences for my colleagues and I, consequences for what our materially-focused work can offer this larger debate, and, for how we view ourselves as archaeologists and anthropologists.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A message in a bottle\" href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/20\/2014\/05\/Bottle_on_sand.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bottle_on_sand\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/20\/2014\/05\/Bottle_on_sand-466x349.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday was wonderfully watery\u00a0at the British Water and Beyond symposium. 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Julia Heunemann\u2019s paper on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,22,25],"tags":[97,258,259,296,504,570,581,733,735],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-centre-for-maritime-archaeology","category-maritime-archaeology","category-theory-representation-and-cultural-politics","tag-assemblages","tag-delanda","tag-deleuze","tag-embodied-knowledge","tag-maritime-space","tag-new-materialism","tag-oceans","tag-seafaring","tag-seas","column","threecol"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Material seas and political acts - Archaeology Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2014\/05\/15\/material-seas-political-acts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Material seas and political acts - Archaeology Blogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Monday was wonderfully watery\u00a0at the British Water and Beyond symposium. 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