Museums in an Age of Posthuman Crisis: Biotechnics, Mediation and Meta-curating

What would it take for the museum to become a medium of the posthuman crisis? Is it possible to see the focus of the museum’s shift towards an innovative mode of possible better futures for the world in the face of accelerating and enframing technological mediation (Heidegger, Zizek, Kittler, Stiegler)? Or, alternatively, would it be possible to see the emergence of a new kind of museum whose invention was based on a different view of technology? One in which human agency and embodiment (Hansen, Serres) are brought into play in new and alternative ways? Based on the most recent writings by the French philosopher Michel Serres, I suggest that it is possible to see alternative prospects for the museum, wherein it operates beyond what can be revealed by the technological media, leading towards a method of meta-curating. Here, I argue, the inventive and moral obligations of the posthuman crisis that is threatening our planet may generate alternative histories of biotechnological ideas and experience.