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Objects of Desire, Desire for Objects

Name: Objects of Desire, Desire for Objects
Author: Bénédicte Savoy

Inaugural lecture delivered at the Collège de France on Thursday 30 March 2017

Bénédicte Savoy,

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eBook - ePub

Objects of Desire, Desire for Objects

Inaugural lecture delivered at the Collège de France on Thursday 30 March 2017

Bénédicte Savoy,

About this book

At the museum, this means seeing the objects where they are, and simultaneously seeing them where they no longer are, that is to say, in the regions from which they were taken. It means enjoying the beauty and the knowledge that have been accumulated in our cities over centuries, but enjoying them with full awareness of the conditions in which these objects were collected, in asymmetrical economic, military and epistemological contexts. It means rendering visible, in order to master them better, the internal contradictions and the glaring tensions that have been at work in the very idea of museums since its origin. It means paying close attention, in this context, to the gazes and voices of the dispossessed.

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