What is it about?
This article draws on Barad’s concepts of intra-action and diffraction to perceive the rope as diffracting into two different SpaceTimes of the 19th and 21st centuries. We conclude with a call for more museal diffractions that can (intra-)activate the museum’s relational capacities in the ecology of the city.
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Why is it important?
The last few years have abounded with heated discussions, controversial publications, and provoking exhibitions on the meaning and role of museums. The museums’ exclusivity, coloniality, and epistemicide are still materialised through the way history is displayed, told and retold, in what is considered heritage and in ways of its preservation. While Kudlik and Luby (2019) focus on disability and its absence in the museum, our empirical material enfolds the absence of children in the exhibited history of fishery. It shows how this (absent) heritage can be traced today by following the rope as it is entangled with one child’s curiosity.
Perspectives
It was a great pleasure co-authoring this article which shows the creative entanglements that occur with/in relations. We are inspired by Karen Barad's offerings, "to theorize is not to leave the material world behind and enter the domain of pure ideas where the lofty space of mind makes objective reflection possible. Theorizing, like experimenting, is a material practice" (Barad, 2007: 55).
Josephine Gabi
Manchester Metropolitan University
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This page is a summary of: Noncompliant Learning: Diffracting SpaceTimes, Intra-active Ropes, and a Museum’s Roping into the City through a Curious Child, Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy, July 2022, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/23644583-bja10029.
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