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Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': the Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography

Jordan, Spencer

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Abstract

The chapter examines the interdependencies between fiction and archaeology through the analysis of psychogeography, a broad and ever expanding genre that mixes archaeological and historical fact with fiction. Critical to this analysis is an understanding of psychogeography as a phenomenon that is as much spatial, a performative experience across an ‘archaeologicalised’ terrain, as it is a textual encounter. As Van Dyke and Bernbeck note in Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology (2016), one of the challenges for archaeology is embracing, what they term, ‘the role of the imagination’ (p.19). Through the analysis of two research projects, the chapter explores this performative and spatial dimension of psychogeography, and through that, the experience of the ‘hyper-archaeological’ within an understanding of place. Finally, the chapter explores how psychogeographical methods might be used to comprehend and to create new archaeological stories, stories which are not simply textual but spatial, performative and technologically enabled.

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Jordan, S. (2021). Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': the Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography. In Writing Remains New Intersections of Archaeology, Literature and Science (95-116). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350109490.ch-004

Acceptance Date Sep 1, 2020
Online Publication Date Jan 14, 2021
Publication Date Jan 14, 2021
Deposit Date Mar 9, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 95-116
Series Title Explorations in Science and Literature
Book Title Writing Remains New Intersections of Archaeology, Literature and Science
Chapter Number 4
ISBN 9781350109476
DOI https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350109490.ch-004
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5382304
Publisher URL https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/writing-remains-new-intersections-of-archaeology-literature-and-science/ch4-creative-facticity-and-hyper-archaeology-the-spatial-and-performative-textualities-of-psychogeography

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