Key Readings

Since its inception this blog has had various forms of “influences” and “bibliography” pages, and this is its latest incarnation. This time without structure, or attempts to explain… suffice to say these texts are an important grounding for this blog:

Center for the Future of Museums. Museums and Society 2034: Trends and Potential Futures. American Association of Museums. 2008. <pdf>
Pinky. (ed). Future Museum Report: Some notes on our time-travel expeditions, 2028-2098. (compiled by notes from Bunny, Kim and Pinky). Version 2.0, completed August 2010. <pdf>
Philip K. Dick. Galactic Pot-healer, Berkley. 1969.
Salvador Muñoz-Viñas. Contemporary Theory of Conservation. Elsevier. 2004.
Svetlana Boym. The Future of Nostalgia. Basic Books. 2002.
Mariam Clavir. Preserving What Is Valued: Museums Conservation and First Nations.University of Washington Press. 2002.
Randall Amster, Abraham DeLeon, Luis A. Fernandez, Anthony J. Nocella II and Deric Shannon. Contemporary Anarchist Studies: an introductory anthology of anarchy in the academy. Routledge. 2009.
Dean Sully. (ed). Decolonising Conservation: Caring for Maori Meeting Houses outside New Zealand. UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications (LCP). 2008.
Nicholas Stanley Price, M. Kirby Talley Jr., and Alessandro Melucco Vaccaro (eds). Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Getty Publications. 1996.
Georgy Katsiaficas. The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life, AK Press 2006. <contents>
Robert Hewison. The Heritage Industry. Methuen. 1987.
Raoul Vaneigem. The Revolution of Everyday Life. 1967. (various translations) <html>
David Lowenthal. The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge University Press. 1985.
Bill Brown (ed). Critical Inquiry (Special issue: Things). Vol. 28. No. 1 (Autumn 2001). <editorial, pdf> <JStor>
Peter Ucko. Academic Freedom and Apartheid: The Story of the World Archaeological Congress. Duckworth. London. 1987.
Lorraine Perlman. Having Little, Being Much: A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman’s Fifty Years. Black & Red. 1989. <html>
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected writings. London: Serpent’s Tail. 2001.
Jacques T. Godbout, Alain Caille, Donald Winkler (tr.). The World of the Gift. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2000.
Paul Feyerabend. Against Method: Outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge. 1975. <extract>
Clay Shirky. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. The Penguin Press. New York. 2008.