ABSTRACT
The fact that large amounts of energy was suddenly being redirected from first order practices of survival and reproduction to the production of art and burial practices seem to testify both to the problematic character of these experienced boundaries of human life and to the creative, generative forces they unleashed. The anthropological machine is the discursive production of the bounds of a certain kind of humanity by way of exclusions of the less-than-human with the immediate possibility also of a biopolitical operationalization of this distinction in terms of a marginalization. The chapter discusses the empirically observable sites in which human living takes place. In order to examine such places more closely, the chapyter provides the method of a phenomenological an-archaeology that traces the settlements of borders and boundaries into the unsettlements of a bounding process that takes place in response to anthropological interruption.
