"Just looking for a way to conclude my paper?" Oh, I thought you wanted to
tackle the issues. If you provide some interesting ideas, you may get
interesting answers. In the meantime, I suggest you conclude your paper
with, "the end."
At 06:10 PM 10/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks for the description but I am mainly just looking for a way to
>conclude my paper. Just a breif description of the differences between
>processual and post processual.
>
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>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Nick Gessler
>Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 4:47 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Post Processual vs. Processual / Posthuman
>
>
>Hi Jayson,
>
>There's a lot been said about the issues. I would urge you to look at the
>"new sciences of complexity" for a contemporary model of scientific
>practice. And I'm sure that won't be among your recommended
>readings. Here's my take on the subject, after having lived through much
>of this debate:
>
>If we need to talk about "post-" archaeologies, I suggest we go all the way
>and talk about "posthuman" archaeology. One can make the epistemological
>claim that the world consists of processes and objects, and further that
>the objects themselves are instantiations of yet lower level processes. So
>if archaeology is not about "process," then what is it about? Must it then
>be about "objects?" If so, we must realize that these "objects" are
>themselves processes of yet another kind. So this course leads us
>inescapably back to process...
>
>The aims of the so-called "post-processual" archaeology were mmostly rather
>muddled and often misconstruals of much of the empty baggage developed
>under the broader program of postmodernism...
>
>Certainly a more mature epistemological stand is that of
>posthumanism. That is where the "post-"s are headed. And that direction
>resumes the agenda of understanding process...
>
>I"m interested in getting on with the processual research agenda, not in
>"keeping the conversation going." That has led me to complex adaptive
>systems, artificial life, artificial societies, artificial culture, and
>evolutionary computation. That means multiagent computer modeling and
>simulation. Computation is PURE process running on a material
>substrate. It is both posthuman and processual.
>
>If anyone is interested in this direction, please let me know and I'll
>elaborate...
>
>Cheers,
>Nick
>
>At 02:36 PM 10/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >I am writing a paper for an Method and Theory of Archaeology class and I
> >need to compare Post processual with processual, anybody have any info.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Jayson G.
>
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