Robinson in Ruins: New materialism and the archaeological imagination

Radical Philosophy

Volumn , Issue 169, 2011, Pages 19-35

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16. Bennett, Vibrant Matter, p. 15. Thus 'thing-power' has affinities with Adorno's nonidentity
17. (Bennett, Vibrant Matter, p. 14). However, from Bennett's perspective Adorno gives up playing the clown too soon. For her, his fear of setting the object up as 'idol' in place of the subject has less purchase.
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20. 'Asses, swine, have litter spread,/And with fitting food are fed;/All things have a home but one-/Thou, Oh, Englishman, hast none!' Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'The Masque of Anarchy' (1819).
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42. Kitty Hauser, Shadow Sites: Photography, Archaeology and the British Landscape 1927-1955, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, p. 55.
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44. Hauser, Shadow Sites, p. 32.
45. Benjamin's Thesis III states: 'The chronicler who narrates events without distinguishing between major and minor ones acts in accord with the following truth: nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost to history. Of course, only a redeemed mankind is granted the fullness of its past - which is to say, only for a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments. Each moment it has lived becomes a citation à l'ordre du jour. And that day is Judgement Day.' See Löwy, Fire Alarm, p. 34.
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