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Archeology of
the future is not only a complicated way of looking at our selves with the eyes
of our successors, it is also a way to see our past or our present. If today
archeological sites bring back to light objects that have been under the
surface,
tomorrow these studies will have different projects and methods. The research
will be done in the deepness not of the earth but of the digital sounds that
characterize our era. Digital production in the nearest future will be destined
to prevail on natural production. Leaving space to new technologies and the
decline of the materialistic production will change the life of individuals
and their expressions will change to precise places and spaces. They will not
contain the origin or its appurtenence but the content and the meaning of its
expressions. Time in our culture is given by passages by variations by successions
of ideas; it is underlined by differences of style of period of interpretation
in the world and of life. Although today we don’t leave a sing, a trace; we
type. Our every day life will turn into a continuos typing in the net, like
in communications, in the service sector, in our studies and in production.
The net will be the box in which everything flows, the funnel without material
where temporal and geographical differences nullify themselves, the omnicomprehensive
container that in once holds today, yesterday and tomorrow. The archeology of
the future is an utopy, not because it is contradictory in its terms but because
in our time through technology the future mixes with the present denying the
illusion of a difference that for man is indispensable but that globalization
does not permit. Musil wrote in the twenties : "If the realization
of primordial dreams are considered to be able to fly with the birds and swim
with the fish, dig huge tunnels in the heart of mountains, send messages at
extraordinary speed, being able to see or hear what is invisible and far away...then
the actual reasearch is not only science, but it is also magic..."
But would the Austrian writer ever have thought of the effect of the progression
of that magic which is the incessant and immutable continue of the present?
Mattia
Torre
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