Technology is supposed to meet the challenge of climate change or resource depletion. Is the future an object of design? This question can bring together and divide policy makers and it will interest also the scientists and engineers who labor under the demand to deliver that future.

Material Hermeneutics explores the ways that new imaging technologies and scientific instruments have changed our notions about ancient history. It will appeal to scholars and students of the humanities, as well as anthropologists and archaeologists.

This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly recognised.