Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik
@dimitrij.bsky.social
archaeology...Neolithic...theory...landscape...animals...movement...psychoanalysis...Lacan...Žižek...Anthropocene https://dimitrij.splet.arnes.si
Anomalije: Stonehenge, deležniki, manjše zlo in vse tisto, česar dediščina ne more povsem prebaviti.
Alenka Pirman@alenkapirman.bsky.social · 4d ago#PRIPOROČAM esej Dimitrija Mlekuža Vrhovnika o dediščini. @dimitrij.bsky.social: "Dediščina ni preteklost sama, temveč le ena od možnih organizacij odnosov do preteklosti." kajza.si/dimitrij-mle... #Stonehenge #anomalije #festivalRAZPOKA
Geoglyphs on the Goriški Kras: TITO, FLRJ, the hammer and sickle. Signs written not simply on the landscape, but with it. Stone, soil and vegetation become the medium. And the medium, inevitably, is political. New fragment on Feral Methods: dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/09/19/t...
The Medium Is the Message
Geoglyphs are signs inscribed into the landscape by cutting into the ground, arranging stones, or piling up earth. Their medium is the Earth itself. Once made, they become part of its surface and begi...
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There is a deep connection between weaving and computation. Here, the two become beautifully entangled: a 555 timer chip woven into a rug by Navajo weaver Marilou Schultz.
Looks like I have some beef with heritage. Another small anarchist attack, this time with help from Ozymandias. The king is dead, the empire gone, the monument broken. And yet somehow we keep putting him back at the centre. #heritage #archaeology dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/09/13/o...
Ozymandias
A reflection on monuments, power and heritage through Shelley’s Ozymandias, asking how archaeology and preservation may unwittingly perpetuate the structures of attention that monuments were built to ...
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As the #EAA2026 in Athens comes to an end, reposting Business as Always, on archaeology, Athens, and the politics of carrying on as usual. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/08/30/b... #EAA #Archaeology
Business as usual
The EAA conference in Athens went ahead amid boycotts, protests and an unresolved crisis over Gaza and Israeli institutional participation. Nothing was resolved; archaeology continued. A short reflect...
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New on Feral Methods: Business as usual. The crisis around Gaza had not disappeared. Boycotts, withdrawals, protests. Yet in Athens @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social continued as usual. It did not look normal. It looked uncannily normal. #EAA2026 #Archaeology dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/08/30/b...
Business as usual
The EAA conference in Athens went ahead amid boycotts, protests and an unresolved crisis over Gaza and Israeli institutional participation. Nothing was resolved; archaeology continued. A short reflect...
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It’s quite something seeing the (long) list of people who claim to work on social justice issues in archaeology who are prepared to go to EAA in Athens this year, sometimes sharing sessions with people involved in illegal excavations in the West Bank. bdsmovement.net/news/europea...
European Association of Archaeologists Is Welcoming Scholars Knowingly Participating in a War Crime
The EAA is welcoming scholars from Hebrew University, which is partially built on land illegally expropriated from Palestinians in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, to its annual meeting, Sept 2-6.
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Apparently it’s #NationalDogDay, a good excuse to bring back Field Dogs, my piece about dogs on archaeological fieldwork. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/08/22/f... And I’m still collecting field-dog stories, photos, memories and legends.
Field Dogs
What does an archaeological excavation look like to a dog? A fragment about field dogs, archaeological distance, attention, sociality, and the gaze that puts archaeologists back into the frame.
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If you have memories, photographs, stories or legends about dogs on excavations, surveys, field camps or archaeological projects, please share them here. I suspect there is a whole unofficial history of archaeology told through its dogs. #archaeology #dogs dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/08/22/f...
Field Dogs
What does an archaeological excavation look like to a dog? A fragment about field dogs, archaeological distance, attention, sociality, and the gaze that puts archaeologists back into the frame.
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Field Dogs, piece about dogs as part of archaeological fieldwork: hanging around trenches, following routines, noticing excitement, waiting through boredom, sharing camps, meals, dust, and all the strange rhythms of excavation. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/08/22/f...
Field Dogs
What does an archaeological excavation look like to a dog? A fragment about field dogs, archaeological distance, attention, sociality, and the gaze that puts archaeologists back into the frame.
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Feral Methods is a fermentation chamber attached to the scientific machine. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si
Feral Methods
Feral Methods; essays on naturecultures by Dimitrij Mlekuž Vrhovnik.
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In the house of archaeology there lives an Odradek. New essay on Kafka, the Lepenski Vir archive, and why every archaeological order leaves something behind that quietly waits to return. Feral methods: dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/08/09/o...
Odradek
An essay on Kafka’s Odradek, the Lepenski Vir archive, and the unsettling afterlife of archaeological interpretation. Every act of ordering leaves something without a place.
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New essay: "Triptych III: The Archive" The archive doesn't store archaeological memory. It produces it and then disappears, so its accumulated decisions present themselves as "archaeology itself." On why the discipline can't see the apparatus it sees through. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/06/29/t...
Triptych III: The Archive
The archive appears, at first, to be the final stage of memory. Memory organises traces; the archive preserves those organisations. Yet this is only half the story. Once memory acquires hard material ...
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Carlo Ginzburg’s death made me think about a peculiarly Slovenian debate. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/b...
Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87
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The Neolithic never happened. (At least not in the way we usually imagine it.) New blog post: dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/06/13/t...
The Neolithic Never Happened – Feral Methods
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New essay: Guerrilla Archaeology. A reflection on epistemic risk, infrastructural science, alterity, weak signals, and archaeology’s growing fear of destabilizing thought. Not against rigor, but against rigor without vulnerability. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/05/31/g...
Guerilla archaeology – Feral Methods
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Dear Archaeologists, as you know, we are trying to explore whether the EAA can be rescued and given back to its members. Please, have a look at our statement: drive.google.com/file/d/1ehzn.... To sign it: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/xZZjy6le @archagainstaparth.bsky.social @blacktrowel.bsky.social
We're hiring at the Department of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana! Palaeolithic and Mesolithic specialist wanted, someone who likes fieldwork, students and hunter-gatherers who left frustratingly little behind. Ljubljana is fine, actually. Deadline July 10. www.uni-lj.si/en/universit...
FF, University teacher at Department of Archaelogy
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I think it is the last day to cancel that EAA Athens booking. It is the Nakba day so fitting #boycottEAA
Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide@archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 5mo agoRead our response to recent statements by the EAA European Association of Archaeologists. Cancel attendance at EAA2026 Athens with a full refund before this Friday, May 15th. #boycottEAA drive.google.com/file/d/1lE-1...
A remarkable spectacle… The majoritiy speak clearly, and then,in the labyrinth of task groups, procedural clarifications and administrative mediation, the political content quietly evaporates...
Zena Kamash@zenakamash.bsky.social · 5mo agoWell... A reminder of Jan vote: Motion A: 67% (486 members) agreed to exclude Israeli institutions (not individuals) from participating in EAA AMs until the end of the genocide in Palestine ends [paraphrased] 1/2 www.e-a-a.org/EAA/News___P...
New essay on trace, memory, and archaeology. Memory is not stored in things. It is produced through organisation, reading, and cuts into persistence. On traces, palimpsests, violence, and why archaeology always works in the present. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/01/20/t...
Triptych II: Memory – Feral Methods
Persistence alone, however, is insufficient for memory. If every enduring trace were already memory, memory would be automatic and indiscriminate. Such an account collapses memory into mere duration. Memory requires more than endurance: it requires that traces enter into relations.
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"Capturing Light" by Coast Salish artist Maynard Johnny Jr. Raven is stealing the sun for humanity. See more of his work here: steinbruecknativegal...
I’ve posted Triptych I: Trace, the first essay in a small triptych. It stays close to material marks and what they become over time. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/01/11/t...
Triptych I: On Trace – Feral Methods
Before it is read, it is not yet a trace. After it is read, it is never just itself again. The trace exists only in the encounter. It becomes a trace only when something enters into relation with it, a gaze, a body, a tool, a question, a method.
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In light of the upcoming EAA special meeting, where the future of the Association is genuinely at stake, I’m sharing the letter I submitted to The European Archaeologist about the current crisis. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/01/09/o...
On the Impossibility of Maintaining Distance – Feral Methods
Archaeology is always already political, because its interpretations of the past shape identities, heritage, and claims to belonging, and can and are mobilised by states, institutions, and communities as tools of power, exclusion, or legitimation. But archaeology is political also because it speaks about the Other in order to sustain itself. It is a collective practice that studies the persistence, fracture, and failure of human ways of living together, while continuously organising, regulating, and disciplining social relations within its own community. How archaeologists live and work together is not external to knowledge production; it is constitutive of it.
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