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Show and Tell: The Birth of the Museum is an engaging work which explores the evolution and cultural function of the modern museum. Author Tony Bennett's invigorating study enriches and challenges our understanding of the museum, placing it at the center of modern relations of culture and... read more
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Ranged against the museum and the library, Foucault argues, are those heterotopias which, far from being linked to the accumulation of time, are linked to time 'in its most fleeting, transitory, precarious aspect, to time in the mode of the festival' (ibid.: 26).
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