A new ethics for the global practice of curating Today, everyone is
a curator. What was once considered a hallowed expertise is now a
commonplace and global activity. Can this new worldwide activity be
ethical and, if yes, how? This book argues that curating can be
more than just selecting, organizing, and presenting information in
galleries or online. Curating can also constitute an ethics, one of
acquiring, arranging, and distributing an always conjectural
knowledge about the world. Curating as Ethics is primarily
philosophical in scope, evading normative approaches to ethics in
favor of an intuitive ethics that operates at the threshold of
thought and action. It explores the work of authors as diverse as
Heidegger, Spinoza, Meillassoux, Mudimbe, Chalier, and Kofman.
Jean-Paul Martinon begins with the fabric of these ethics: how it
stems from matter, how it addresses death, how it apprehends
interhuman relationships. In the second part he establishes the
ground on which the ethics is based, the things that make up the
curatorial-for example, the textual and visual evidence or the
digital medium. The final part focuses on the activity of curating
as such-sharing, caring, preparing, dispensing, and so on. With its
invigorating new approach to curatorial studies, Curating as Ethics
moves beyond the field of museum and exhibition studies to provide
an ethics for anyone engaged in this highly visible activity,
including those using social media as a curatorial endeavor, and
shows how philosophy and curating can work together to articulate
the world today.
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