This is cute. My hotel puts obscure archaeological artifacts next to the bed in every room apparently
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hard to know what ‘work’ would even mean when it comes to ancient ritual objects
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I suspect there might be no clear notion of antiquity or obsolescence in the atemporal future. Time as fashion.
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There’s an excellent chapter of Veblen’s _Leisure Class_ (1899) about obsolete technology as a class status signal.
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pastoralism selects specific predictable things like lawns, horses, cattle ranches that signal barbarian heritage
I have an uber pastoralist lawyer friend who clings to his blackberry as the last vestige of an era



