A review by cattytrona
After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory by Trevor Owens

3.0

i particularly liked the focus on labour and how museum jobs are percieved, and i found the linking of start-up culture and the way museums are forced into working really insightful. i also liked the emphasising of positionality and honesty about address and citation very much. having just said that, the actual practical way those citations worked, where owen would just summarise someone else's admirable work for a couple of pages, frustrated me. i understand why he did that, but it ended up feeling like the book was just hopping between other people's narratives, whilst begging the question - 'why am i not just reading that instead?' it unfortunately worked much better when it was being done critically, using non-fiction tech bro publications as fodder for historical/literary analysis.