25.6.06
Some readings...
I need to expand my list. But for the time being, these have been of help when thinking about ideas of representation and interpretation, particularly in museum exhibits and websites:
Jean Baudrillard. "Simulacra and Simulations". I like looking at this as a travel memoir and thinking about travel itself as a form of seeking out, ingesting and reproducing.
Walter Benjamin. "Paris in the 19th Century" on the role of the flaneur; and "The Task of the Translator". It seems worthwhile to think of museum interpretation as a form of translation, wherein the thing beheld or ideas represented have undergone a "sea change".
James Clifford. "Introduction. Partial Truths" from On Writing Culture. The role of anthropologist as author; the act of constructing narratives as a collaboration between ethnographer and subject.
Michel de Certeau. “Walking in the City” from Everyday Practices. The pedestrian reinvents the city, subverting the scripts of urban planners.
Greg Dening, Performances. On language and discourse; interpretation and the poetics of history.
John Dewey. Excerpts from Art as Experience. Visitor experience; interpretation; triadic relations…
Michel Foucault. “Panopticism”: Design as social experimentation; "Truth and Power" on notions of hegemony.
Jürgen Habermas. “Modernity – An Incomplete Project”.
Lucy Lippard. Off the Beaten Track and Lure of the Local.
W.G. Sebald. Austerlitz. On maps and excavated memory.
Edward Tufte. Envisioning Information. (The ideas once stated seem obvious but the pictures are invaluable.)
Raymond Williams. Marxism and Literature. On hegemony and agency.
Jean Baudrillard. "Simulacra and Simulations". I like looking at this as a travel memoir and thinking about travel itself as a form of seeking out, ingesting and reproducing.
Walter Benjamin. "Paris in the 19th Century" on the role of the flaneur; and "The Task of the Translator". It seems worthwhile to think of museum interpretation as a form of translation, wherein the thing beheld or ideas represented have undergone a "sea change".
James Clifford. "Introduction. Partial Truths" from On Writing Culture. The role of anthropologist as author; the act of constructing narratives as a collaboration between ethnographer and subject.
Michel de Certeau. “Walking in the City” from Everyday Practices. The pedestrian reinvents the city, subverting the scripts of urban planners.
Greg Dening, Performances. On language and discourse; interpretation and the poetics of history.
John Dewey. Excerpts from Art as Experience. Visitor experience; interpretation; triadic relations…
Michel Foucault. “Panopticism”: Design as social experimentation; "Truth and Power" on notions of hegemony.
Jürgen Habermas. “Modernity – An Incomplete Project”.
Lucy Lippard. Off the Beaten Track and Lure of the Local.
W.G. Sebald. Austerlitz. On maps and excavated memory.
Edward Tufte. Envisioning Information. (The ideas once stated seem obvious but the pictures are invaluable.)
Raymond Williams. Marxism and Literature. On hegemony and agency.
