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Curating As Ethics

Today, everyone is a curator. What was once considered a hallowed expertise is now a commonplace activity of global proportions. Can this new world-wide activity be ethical and if yes, how? This book attempts to demonstrate that curating can be more than just selecting, organising and presenting information in galleries or online, it can also constitute an ethics. This ethics consists in acquiring, arranging, and distributing an always conjectural knowledge about the world, which over time, becomes a practical intelligence akin to that used by the midwife. With such an approach, this book attempts to move beyond the narrow field of museum and exhibition studies in order to provide an ethics for anyone interested in this highly visible activity, including those using a sharing digital social media platform as a curatorial endeavour. Curating as Ethics is primarily philosophical in scope, evading normative approaches to ethics (the use, non-use, abuse, and disuse of norms, principles, maxims, codes, etc.) in favour of an intuitive ethics (a midwifery) that operates at the threshold of thought and action. It explores the work of authors as diverse as Heidegger, Spinoza, Meillassoux, Mudimbe, Chalier, and Kofman. This invigorating new approach to curatorial studies aims to show how philosophy and curating can work together to articulate the world today. As such, its originality consists in forging a radically new departure to academic theses on curating that conventionally focus on exhibition making and its histories. It also manages to foster a new type of ethics on the basis of a new reading of one of Heidegger’s last concept, the fourfold. From what many would consider the end of ethics, comes this book that opens up the possibility of thinking an ethics from an Heideggerian perspective. This book is published in a new series at the University of Minnesota Press called Thinking Theory edited by the well-known US scholar Grant Farred.