A01=Matt Rosen
archaeology
Author_Matt Rosen
Category=NKA
Category=QDTJ
continental theory
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
ethics
ontology
Philosophy
speculative horror
speculative realism
time
Product details
- ISBN 9781789041477
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2019
- Publisher: Collective Ink
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
If Levinas and Negarestani raised a child enchanted by the dark, then this is his debut. In this book, Rosen argues that current archaeological theoretic approaches are not up to the task of adequately theorizing exhumation in our present age of extinctions. Speculative Annihilationism attempts to “think thought’s extinction,” suggesting a new ontological ground for archaeology. Combining contemporary work in speculative philosophy, saprophytic dialectics, and Levinasian ethics, Rosen’s “putrefied-thought” explores themes of the unthought and unthinkable, anonymity, otherness, and meaninglessness so that archaeology can be granted a new basis, a new avenue of inquiry at its intersection with extinction.
Matt Rosen is a theorist, writer, and student whose research centers on the archaic, the dark, and the relation between people and things. He is currently a student at Colorado College.
