Rogue Things, Biotechnical Thresholds, and Post-cybernetic Museums: A Critique

In this paper, I will propose that if we begin to understand museums as mediation-technologies then they could be seen as producers of thresholds that may navigate between anthropological problems and biotechnological umwelt. The question is: who navigates the archive of thresholds? A question which leads to the framing and naming of the post-cybernetic museum.

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Morten Søndergaard

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Publication date: September 2021

Publication date (Print): September 2021

Pages: 309-314

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Copenhagen, Denmark

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/POM2021.41

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Conference name: Proceedings of Politics of the Machines - Rogue Research 2021

Conference acronym: POM 2021

Conference number: 3

Conference location: Berlin, Germany

Conference date: September 14-17, 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: debate and devise concepts and practices that seek to critically question and unravel novel modes of science

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[1] W Benjamin (2010) The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility. Grey room, 39, 11–38.

[2] D. M Berry (2014). Post-Digital Humanities: Computation and Cultural Critique in the Arts and Humanities. Educause Review. http://er.educause.edu/~/media/files/article-downloads/erm1433.pdf ( 6 September 2021 )

[3] K Bijsterveld & J van Dijk (2009) Chapter Three: The Preservation Paradox in Digital Audio. In K. Bijsterveld & J. van Dijk (Eds.) Sound, Souvenirs & Audio Technologies. Memory and Cultural Practices. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam.

[4] W. H. K Chun (2016). Ubiquitous Memory: I Do Not Remember, We Do Not Forget. U Ekman, J. D Bolter, L Díaz, M Søndergaard & M Engberg (Eds.), Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity, and Culture (pp. 159–173). New York: Routledge.

[5] V Flusser (2011) Into the Universe of Technical Images. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.

[6] C.Y Frostholm (2018) Træmuseet. Gyldendal, Copenhagen.

[7] M.A.V Gonzales (2018) Keynote (not published). Politics of Machines Conference, Copenhagen. Paraphrase based on private notes.

[8] M Hansen (2004) The Time of Affect, or Bearing Witness to Life”. Critical inquiry, 30 (3), 584–626.

[9] M. B Hansen (2006) Media Theory. Theory, culture & society, 23 (2-3), 297–306.

[10] M. B. N Hansen (2010) New Media. M. B. N Hansen and W. J. T Mitchell (Eds.) Critical Terms for Media Studies, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

[11] M. B. N Hansen and W. J. T Mitchell (2010) Time and Space. M. B. N Hansen and W. J. T Mitchell (Eds.) Critical Terms for Media Studies, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

[12] K Hayles (2010) The Way We Think. Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, University of Chicago Press.

[13] M Heidegger (1977) The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays. Harper & Row, New York.

[14] P Højholt (1982) Praksis 4: Lynmuseet og andre blindgyder. Schønberg, Copenhagen.

[15] F Kittler (1999) Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, Stanford University Press, Stanford.

[16] J Lund (2020) Tid. J Lund & U Schmidt (Eds.) Medieæstetik: En Introduktion. Samfundslitteratur, Copenhagen.

[17] C Paul (2014). Genealogies of the Digital: A Post-Critique. Ertan, Ekmel (Ed.) Histories of the Post Digital. Akbank Sanat, Istanbul.

[18] C Paul (2015). From Immateriality to Neomateriality: Art and the Conditions of Digital Materiality. In Proceedings of the 21. International Symposium on Electronic Art, Vancouver, 14 – 19 August 2015 552–555. New Forms Art Press, Vancouver.

[19] J Putnam (2001) Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium. Thames and Hudson, London.

[20] M Serres (1986) Statues. Les Le second livre des fondations. Gallimard, Paris.

[21] M Serres (2007) Les nouvelles technologies: révolution culturelle et cognitive, Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique. http://iatranshumanisme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/pdf_texte_de_la_conference.pdf ( 6 September 2021 )

[22] N Sternfeld (2016) Deprovincialising the Museum. Body Luggage. Archive Books, Berlin.

[23] B Stiegler (1998) Technics and time. Stanford University Press, Stanford.

[24] C Whitehead (2012) Interpreting art in museums and galleries. Routledge, London.

[25] T Wilke (2010) Tacti(ca)lity Reclaimed: Benjamin’s Medium, the Avant-Garde, and the Politics of the Senses. Grey room, 39, 39–56.

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