“Museum Practices and Posthumanist Assemblages: Activating the Possibilities of Technology Collections” presented by Lawler-Dormer and
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- Histories and Collections
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- Museum Practices and Posthumanist Assemblages: Activating the Possibilities of Technology Collections
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This paper discusses the potential of computational media and museum collections to enable encounters with the technological present that complicate narratives of progress, modernity and individual (male) genius that often frame the conceptualization of technology in the museum space. It provides an account ofan exhibition and associated time-based objects to help anchor a wider discussion of the potential of posthumanist modes of thinking in the museum space.
