Museum
Article Abstract:
A study seeks to develop the idea of the 'musee imaginaire' and to understand the museum as a key institutional space of modernity implicated in addressing the changing character of experience in contemporary times. It follows Walter Benjamin's distinction between experience as Erfahrung and Erlebris to argue that the museum has always sought to offer a fabricated sense of Erfahrung through its narrative and display techniques and that this facilitates a distracted mode of reception that is prominent within contemporary cultural life.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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Civilization
Article Abstract:
The conception of civilization as a complex became contemporary through Samuel Huntington's clash of civilizations thesis and is indicative of the way in which the term 'civilization' carries with it a considerable ideological baggage. A study argues that the ideological use of civilization and the wider discourse of the war against terror involve the fusion, or conflation, of civilization as process and civilization as complex.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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