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EPISODE · Sep 3, 2020 · 46 MIN

12 | Follow the Object

from Archive Fever · host Claire Wright and Yves Rees

Yves and Clare are joined by internationally renowned space archeologist Alice Gorman, who you may also know as Dr Space Junk, author of Dr Space Junk Vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future (MIT Press, 2019). How do we catalog, access, and work in an archive suspended in the stars above our heads? Alice discusses her journey from indigenous heritage management to satellites and spacecraft, and reflects on the pitfalls of understanding the story of humankind as “from the stone age to the space age”. The group also discusses code-breaking, armor against mortality, colonialism and the unexpected delights of cable-ties.

Yves and Clare are joined by internationally renowned space archeologist Alice Gorman, who you may also know as Dr Space Junk, author of Dr Space Junk Vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future (MIT Press, 2019). How do we catalog, access, and work in an archive suspended in the stars above our heads? Alice discusses her journey from indigenous heritage management to satellites and spacecraft, and reflects on the pitfalls of understanding the story of humankind as “from the stone age to the space age”. The group also discusses code-breaking, armor against mortality, colonialism and the unexpected delights of cable-ties.

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