Metamorphosis of Value in the Battle Between Preservation and Allowing Decay
It seems that nothing that occurs in our society today may pass untouched by the hand of preservation, which treats every happening as a past in becoming. If preservation is a product of modernity, as I will argue, so is our multifaceted relationship to objects. Museums are bulging under the pressur...
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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ICOFOM Study Series
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | It seems that nothing that occurs in our society today may pass untouched by the hand of preservation, which treats every happening as a past in becoming. If preservation is a product of modernity, as I will argue, so is our multifaceted relationship to objects. Museums are bulging under the pressure of their enormous collections. Experts together with politicians governed by economic rationalities, battle with the issue of what to preserve, and what to let go. At the same time, in another realm of reality, we are producing billions of tons of trash and refuse every year – material stuff, of which a large part ends up in the oceans, or in enormous landfills all over the world, tightly packed and, without question, very well preserved for coming generations of archaeologists to dig up. Museology is supposed to study man’s “specific relation” to reality, particularly the material reality, and to offer guidance in how to cope with heritage in the future. This paper presents a post-humanist approach to museums and preservation at the one end and our everyday material discards and destruction of value at the other. |
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