The Death of the African Archive and the Birth of the Museum

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Museum and Archive on the Move 9
4. Museums
5. Museum of Art and Science 25
6. The Digital Collection of the Rijksmuseum 37
7. Museum in Motion? 57
8. Museums, Interactivity, and the Tasks of “Exhibition Anthropology” 65
9. The Museum, Public Space and the Internet 83
10. Digital Art’s Complex Expression and Its Impact on Archives and Humanities 99
11. Asia as a Methodology 118
12. The Death of the African Archive and the Birth of the Museum 132
13. Museum on Mars 148
14. Archives
15. Aesthetics and Anaesthetics 173
16. From Archives to Collections 184
17. Textualities, Materialities and Indeterminate Pasts 198
18. Archives in Motion 211
19. Revisiting the Network of “Les Immatériaux” 234
20. The Phantoms of Multimedia 248
21. Cultural Data 259
22. “Weltregal” or the World on a Shelf 277
23. Authors 285
24. Illustration Credits 293
25. Plates 295