Museums in Motu in the Anthropocene
From Active Space to Spatial Actions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22248697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Junyi Lv (0000-0002-4824-4368, University of Southern California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189-204 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the History of Rhetoric (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2687-8003 • E-ISSN: 2687-8011 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.2.0189 |
| OpenAlex | W4388235677 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
In this article I offer an in motu rhetorical analysis of museums in the Anthropocene. Instead of discussing curations inside museums in detail, I examine spatial and rhetorical dialogues between the Jinhuagong National Mine Park, a fifty-year-old coal mine, and the Yungang Grottoes, a Unesco cultural heritage site. Pulling together threads from Heidegger and Chinese environmental philosophies, I redefine museum as spatial action with three entangled lines of action: building, dwelling, and saying. Unlike in previous studies of museum as active space, museum in motu turns museum into museuming—a gerund indicating ongoing actions adapting to contingencies. Through museuming, human beings keep exploring the meaning of building in diverse practices of dwelling and adapting to relational existence with the more-than-human world
Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Archaeology · Art · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Linguistics · Literature · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |