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A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum de Françoise Vergès

A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum

Autor Françoise Vergès Cuvânt înainte de Paul Gilroy Traducere de Melissa Thackway
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 oct 2026

"A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition"--Publishers Weekly

"An impressive critique of the universal museum as complicit in the damages inflicted by colonial power"--Isaac Julien, artist and filmmaker

"Should fascinate anyone interested in social justice, post-colonialism and the arts"--Euronews

"Powerful and so relevant"--Diacritik

The Western museum is a battleground--a terrain of ideological, political and economic contestation. Almost everyone today wants to rethink the museum, but how many have the audacity to question the very idea of the universal museum itself?

In A Programme of Absolute Disorder, Françoise Vergès puts the museum in its place. Exploring the Louvre's history, she uncovers the context in which the universal museum emerged: as a product of colonialism, and of Europe's self-appointed claim to be the guardian of global heritage.

Vergès outlines a radical horizon: to truly decolonize the museum is to implement a "programme of absolute disorder", inventing other ways of apprehending the human and non-human world that nourish collective creativity and bring justice and dignity to the dispossessed.

Françoise Vergès is a political scientist, activist, historian, film writer, and public educator. She is the author of A Decolonial Feminism and A Feminist History of Violence. She is also a senior research fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Center for the Study of Racism and Racialization, University College London.

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ISBN-13: 9780745352619
ISBN-10: 0745352618
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 6 Black & white photographs
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press

Recenzii

'Proposes a root-and-branch decolonisation of the institution of the museum' - The Bookseller
'The post-museum era has come. Museums without objects, museums of the present, living museums, museums of oral speech, museums of the great disorders of the world... There is no shortage of ideas for those who still know how to dream' - Hors-Serie
'A brilliant book on how to order the disorder of colonized spaces while finding new pathways to discuss what it means to question rage and embrace new narratives on the once invisible structures of museums. Françoise Vergès skillfully writes a manifesto of sorts that shifts the paradigm and re-imagines a world as if there was no West with a curious wit, fearless irony, and a clear sense of underpinning hope.' - Deborah Willis, artist, New York University
'A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition' - Publishers Weekly
'A thought-provoking demonstration that should fascinate anyone interested in social justice, post-colonialism and the arts' - Euronews
'An impressive critique of the universal museum as complicit in the ongoing damages inflicted by colonial power structures. Françoise Vergès gives us the tools to harness our imagination in order to build new art institutions for a different future.' - Isaac Julien, filmmaker and installation artist
'Enacting the decolonial task to imagine and practice a post museum, Vergès also enacts the gargantuan task of a post-historical, post-epistemic archive. This obliges the absolute disorder of the structures of thought and feeling that sustain the impossibility of history and knowledge unoccupied by the modern archive. Showing it should be done, Vergès offers creative joyful relentlessness towards decolonial worlds.' - Marisol de la Cadena, Professor of Anthropology, Science & Technology Studies, University of California, Davis
'One of the greatest thinkers of our time, surprises us again with a brilliant work on decolonising the museum. Françoise Vergès demonstrates how insidiously the museum contemplates a colonial order, and offers an intelligent, critical and vivid new approach. A Programme of Absolute Disorder is a masterpiece required reading' - Grada Kilomba, interdisciplinary artist and writer
'Vergès offers, in the wake of Frantz Fanon, a powerful reflection … The Western museum is a tool of domination which must be deconstructed in a post-racist and post-capitalist world. Powerful and so relevant' - Diacritik

Notă biografică

Françoise Vergès is a political scientist, activist, historian, film writer, and public educator. She is the author of A Decolonial Feminism, A Feminist History of Violence, and A Programme of Absolute Disorder. She is also a senior research fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Center for the Study of Racism and Racialization, University College London. She lives in Paris.
 
Paul Gilroy is a renowned sociologist, historian, and cultural theorist recognized for his pioneering work on race, Black diaspora, and postcolonial culture. He is the author of The Black Atlantic, amongst other classics.
 
Melissa Thackway is an independent researcher and translator. She lectures in African Cinema at Sciences-Po and INALCO in Paris. Her recent translations include A Feminist Theory of Violence by Françoise Vergès, Contemporary African Cinema by Olivier Barlet, Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema-Going in Colonial West Africa by Odile Goerg, and African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction by Daniela Ricci.

Cuprins

Preface 
Introduction 
1. A Programme of Absolute Disorder 
2. The Museum: A Battlefield 
3. The Louvre, Napoleon, Capture, the Slave 
4. Black is the model, white the frame 
5. A Museum without Objects 
Epilogue: Decolonial Tactics Notes