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The Pampering Hothouse

January 12, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

In his chapter, “Mutations in the Pampering Space,” Sloterdijk finally gets to describing aspects of the comfort space of the great interior of the palace—the boredom of the hothouse existence on the inside. I like his idea of a “pampering space” because it suggests the hyper-abundance of material goods and security in the overdeveloped interior. Sloterdijk begins by observing that for the populations within the “comfort sphere” there is a shift from need and lack to “thinking in options.” While […]

Categories: Reading Notes • Tags: In the World Interior of Capital, pampering space, Peter Sloterdijk, The Crystal Palace

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Boredom and Fascination of the Crystal Palace’s Inhabitants

January 10, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

In his usage of the Crystal Palace as metaphor for the ordered interior space of the modern project, Sloterdijk describes the inhabitants as afflicted by a “palace boredom” (180). This boredom makes the inhabitants’ pine for “news from the outside” thus threats are experienced as a stimulant. This waiting for news makes their media nervous systems easy to invade through, for example, the violent acts of terrorism. In the dense contexts of encounters in urban and global communication networks, there […]

Categories: Reading Notes • Tags: In the World Interior of Capital, Peter Sloterdijk, The Crystal Palace

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Peter Sloterdijk’s Crystal Palace Metaphor

January 9, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

This morning I arrived at the heart of Sloterdijk’s book, In the World Interior of Capital, the chapter “The Crystal Palace.” That he examines the Crystal Palace of 1851 as a metaphor for modernity is not new—certainly not among anthropologists and folks in visual culture and museum studies who look to the practices of imperial and capitalist-market visuality that the palace represents. The palace’s grand promise to categorize the world and its geographical commodities of empire is obvious—as is its historical position […]

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Chinese Tycoon to Rebuild Crystal Palace, Remembers Glorious Historical Period

October 6, 2013 by Museum Fatigue

“Wonderful, amazing, fairylike, are the words that come uppermost in his mind as the full glories of that famous vista break for the first time on his astonished sight. For a few moments he is so lost in astonishment and absorbed in pleased wonder that he can do nothing but gaze upwards on the noble proportions of that vast central hall, in admiration of the cunning workmanship by which such common materials as mere glass and iron could be made […]

Categories: China, Exhibitions and Fairs, Memory, Nostalgia, Objects of Power, Zombie • Tags: 1851, Chinese tycoons, colonialism, Ni Zhaoxing, Opium War, The Crystal Palace, The Great Exhibition, Yuanmingyuang, ZhongRong, 倪召兴, 圆明园, 水晶宫, 中融集团

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