Bruce Sterling’s Closing Speech at Reboot 11
Posted in Individualism, Presentism on 14. Jul, 2009
I point to the 30 minute mark onwards. Sterling talks about a different materialism, objects as embodied social relationships.
I can’t work out if Sterling could be a museum-saviour or would happily see most of them burnt down. Or both. I now can’t work out why he linked to the “Museum’s most important function” Wordle.
I throw it open to you to help me unpick. I want to know what you think and imagine the list of Four Things is aimed at a museum collections. Beautiful Things, Emotional Things, Tools and Everything Else. The Everything Else part being things not-on-display, that offer-no-meaningful-narrative and are broken.
“Nothing left to conserve and no direction in which to progress, so what we get is more like transition, transition to nowhere…” Exactly. Sterling is right. That’s what will be living in the next decade.
Million thanks for sharing this!