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Totally gutted that it's been more than 16 hours since this thread started and I still haven't had one email from publishers offering a contract for a Cultural Studies Mindfulness Colouring Book. #WorstAcademicDiagrams
a) A genuine concept originating with the Encyclopédistes, or
b) The cynical invention of a gang of Museum Directors worried about repatriation & the status of their institutions as legacies of western imperialism.
Asking for a friend.
(I'm just catching up with Neil MacGregor's account of "Welterbe und Besitz" in Der Tagesspiegel, where he is stretching the 'universal museum' notion to new limits) tagesspiegel.de/kultur/neil-ma…
Poll!
Is the concept of the "Universal Museum" a genuine 18th-century idea, or a spurious 21st-century invention?