Will AI Just Reinforce Museum Hierarchies? A "Shadow Article" on Museums and AI
AI is the latest digital transformation in museums, but despite its democratizing narrative are we treading the same old hierarchical grounds?
Links of the Week: October 8, 2025: Jobs of Ages
Talking about generations in museums workplaces—and in society—reflects darker aspects of a war-against-people economy
Links of the Week: October 3, 2025: Beware Linkslop
When trash scales up and replicates itself, we get a Sorcerer's Apprentice of slop.
Links of the Week: September 19, 2025: Last Year Calling
Are our stories changing or just getting more urgent?
Links of the Week: September 12, 2025: Like a Bull in a Museum Gift Shop
What does a year's worth of articles look like?
Museum Work and B*llshit Jobs
Museum work isn't BS—but are bad workplaces and organizations making museum jobs that way?
Links of the Week: September 5, 2025: Back in Read
Is there such a thing as reading too much?
Yes, This Thing Is Still On
Museum Human has been reading and studying to help keep the writing relevant. Especially now.
Is There a "Joy Division" in Facing the World's Problems? A Review of Hospicing Modernity and What If We Get It Right?
Two recent books approach climate and societal collapse from different sides of the apparent doomer/hoptimism divide—with a side question of joyfulness.
Museum Human's End-of-Year Reading Break Rundown
You get a lot of reading done when you actually read.