Publisher's Synopsis
Curatorial agency is situated in the introduction via an elaboration
of the intersection between the mission of public museums to care for
collections and their increased reliance on digital capitalism's social, technical
and material infrastructures for the circulation of digitisations, narratives
and new research findings. We explain how this book approaches
curatorial agency in four individually authored chapters, each taking its
own approach to museum knowledge and curatorial agency in regard to
the junction of humanistic interpretations and new materialist and posthuman
frameworks. Moreover, we explain how each chapter acts as a case
study that tracks objects from the Swedish History Museum's Viking Age
collection to distinct technological spheres: Swedish discussion forums,
YouTube, Pinterest and the vast infrastructures and destructive processes
of Technospheric curation.
