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oapen-20.500.12657-887342024-05-06T00:00:00Z After Disruption Owens, Trevor Digital History, Future of Libraries, Future of Archives, Future of Museums, Ethic of care, Disruptive innovation, Hustle culture, Data driven decision making, Disability justice, Settler colonialism, Maintenance theory, Information science, Archival theory, Collections management, Collection development, Feminist philosophy, Science and Technology Studies, History of Technology, Cultural criticism, Public History, Digital age, startup, tech sector, memory institutions, digital infrastructure, memory workers thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLC Library, archive and information management thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies The digital age is burning out our most precious resources and the future of the past is at stake. In After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory, Trevor Owens warns that our institutions of cultural memory—libraries, archives, museums, humanities departments, research institutes, and more—have been “disrupted,” and largely not for the better. He calls for memory workers and memory institutions to take back control of envisioning the future of memory from management consultants and tech sector evangelists. After Disruption posits that we are no longer planning for a digital future, but instead living in a digital present. In this context, Owens asks how we plan for and develop a more just, sustainable, and healthy future for cultural memory. The first half of the book draws on critical scholarship on the history of technology and business to document and expose the sources of tech startup ideologies and their pernicious results, revealing that we need powerful and compelling counter frameworks and values to replace these ideologies. The second half of the book makes the case for the centrality of maintenance, care, and repair as interrelated frameworks to build a better future in which libraries, archives, and museums can thrive as sites of belonging and connection through collections. 2024-03-25T12:57:24Z 2024-03-25T12:57:24Z 2024 book 9780472076673 9780472056675 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88734 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9780472904365.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12410213 10.3998/mpub.12410213 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 9780472076673 9780472056675 225 open access
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The digital age is burning out our most precious resources and the future of the past is at stake. In After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory, Trevor Owens warns that our institutions of cultural memory—libraries, archives, museums, humanities departments, research institutes, and more—have been “disrupted,” and largely not for the better. He calls for memory workers and memory institutions to take back control of envisioning the future of memory from management consultants and tech sector evangelists.
After Disruption posits that we are no longer planning for a digital future, but instead living in a digital present. In this context, Owens asks how we plan for and develop a more just, sustainable, and healthy future for cultural memory. The first half of the book draws on critical scholarship on the history of technology and business to document and expose the sources of tech startup ideologies and their pernicious results, revealing that we need powerful and compelling counter frameworks and values to replace these ideologies. The second half of the book makes the case for the centrality of maintenance, care, and repair as interrelated frameworks to build a better future in which libraries, archives, and museums can thrive as sites of belonging and connection through collections.
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