Resources

bell hooks on plurality. (2000) ‘beyond specific historical contexts or shifting relations of power and inequalities’

Mentions

“the vision of a world where myriad and diverse cosmologies, epistemologies, and ontologies overlap, intersect, interweave, and entwine to form a glorious tapestry of entanglement — a reflection of our indelible interconnectedness and inter-relatedness”->
“official archival institutions can be seen as preoccupied with assimilating individual voices into unified, formalized, coherent, logical collective narratives, para-archives might be seen as concerned with acknowledging the heterogeneity and plurality of micro-perspectives, forms of alterity that might be incompatible with the mainstream, strategic, and regulatory.” ⤴️

Demystifying the ‘Pluriverse’ as the Hegemony Unravels
Constructing the Pluriverse: The Geopolitics of Knowledge edited by Bernd Reiter

“professional curation is usually positioned as the acquisition and caretaking of artifacts, which includes knowledge of how to preserve old or fragile objects (O’Neill, [2012], p. 9).” - Public Curation and Private Collection The Production of Knowledge on Pinterest.Com