Symmetrical arcaeology suspends any concern with epistemology and focuses upon how we enter into particular ontological configurations with diverse entities. In place of any modernist distribution of entities we focus on heterogeneous networks, the mangles of reality.

In this way, action is understood as entangled within a distributed and collective realm that encompasses things (refer to paper by Witmore and Shanks, 2004). With network ontologies old dualisms such as structure and agency, individual and society, and so on are bypassed in pursuing the multiple connections that encompass the human being...

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