Máquina Museu
Brief and general critical reflection on the “museum” reality and what it implies as a total social phenomenon, typical of modernity. The museum’s civic responsibility as an inescapable ideological-political instrument. The museum contains in itself, or symbolizes, all the paradoxes of modernity and...
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Universidade de Évora
2022-05-01
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| description | Brief and general critical reflection on the “museum” reality and what it implies as a total social phenomenon, typical of modernity. The museum’s civic responsibility as an inescapable ideological-political instrument. The museum contains in itself, or symbolizes, all the paradoxes of modernity and, with it, of Western ontology itself: it objectifies, it exposes to our scopic and fetishist drive a kind of microcosm, a representative collection of some idea, but, like the collection, it is never complete: the imaginary and the symbolic that the museum embodies are never enough, we always leave the visit with a sense of incompleteness. But it's a good thing that the museum is an imperfect machine: in a functionalized world, it is the modern temple where one does nothing, only contemplates or essentially meditates. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8d74c571123f4d1b86d3935f4350df022024-12-09T15:18:48ZengUniversidade de ÉvoraMidas: Museus e Estudos Interdisciplinares2182-95432022-05-011410.4000/midas.3102Máquina MuseuVítor Oliveira JorgeBrief and general critical reflection on the “museum” reality and what it implies as a total social phenomenon, typical of modernity. The museum’s civic responsibility as an inescapable ideological-political instrument. The museum contains in itself, or symbolizes, all the paradoxes of modernity and, with it, of Western ontology itself: it objectifies, it exposes to our scopic and fetishist drive a kind of microcosm, a representative collection of some idea, but, like the collection, it is never complete: the imaginary and the symbolic that the museum embodies are never enough, we always leave the visit with a sense of incompleteness. But it's a good thing that the museum is an imperfect machine: in a functionalized world, it is the modern temple where one does nothing, only contemplates or essentially meditates.https://journals.openedition.org/midas/3102musealisationmuseumspatrimonialisationmuseums and western modernitymuseums and social responsibility |
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