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Abstract
The granite block of O Pedrón, a recarved Roman altar to Neptune, is an object of veneration at the church of St. James in the town of Padrón along the Camino de Santiago in Galicia, northwest Iberia. I use this enchanting object as a vehicle for thinking about materials, assemblages, and time, engaging with ideas drawn from Bergson, Benjamin, Deleuze, and Husserl. I describe how O Pedrón has participated in events across two millennia: the Roman colonization of Iron Age Iberia; the medieval creation of the cult of Santiago; and a contemporary push for tourism. The concept of assemblage helps us visualize the sensory, emotional, political, and other dimensions connected with the stone. The emergent properties of assemblages move not only forward but backward in time, in a process characterized by Husserl and Gell as protension and retension.
O Pedrón的花岗岩石块,是一座重新雕刻的罗马海神祭坛,是伊比利亚西北部加利西亚圣地亚哥之路Padrón镇圣詹姆斯教堂的祭品。我用这个迷人的物体作为思考材料、组合和时间的载体,与柏格森、本雅明、德勒兹和胡塞尔的思想相结合。我描述了O Pedrón如何参与两千年来的事件:罗马对铁器时代伊比利亚的殖民;中世纪对圣地亚哥的崇拜;以及当代对旅游业的推动。集合的概念帮助我们想象与石头相关的感官、情感、政治和其他维度。集合的涌现特性在时间上不仅向前移动,而且向后移动,这一过程被胡塞尔和盖尔描述为延伸和保留。
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Social Archaeology is a fully peer reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research focused on social approaches in archaeology, opening up new debates and areas of exploration. It engages with and contributes to theoretical developments from other related disciplines such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, social geography, literary theory, politics, anthropology, cognitive studies and behavioural science. It is explicitly global in outlook with temporal parameters from prehistory to recent periods. As well as promoting innovative social interpretations of the past, it also encourages an exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues.