Links of the Week: January 21, 2022: Traumatic Times
Exploitation around many individual issues is adding up to big trauma for museum workers.
Museum Disruption Revisited (and Dismantling Visited)
Can museum workers really down bring their own system?
Links of the Week: September 17, 2021: The Great Exhausting
The Great Resignation is here, but is there a deeper issue lurking in the museum field?
Introverts and Extroverts in Museum Work
Is a museum workplace possible which benefits introverts, extroverts, and everyone who's both and in between?
Museum Work in an Age of Anxiety
Are museums and workers ready to confront existential threats to their very existence?
The NFT Conundrum for Museums
Can museums resist the latest get-rich-quick-(by-making-others-poor) scheme?
Busyness, Revisited
The cult of busyness is the museum field's daily expression of weaponized and exploited time.
How to Make Museum Work Flexible, not Fauxible
Flexible work is not just schedules and policies. It's roles, skills, mindsets, and more. Otherwise it's fake flexibility: fauxibility.
The Museum Field's Twin Obsessions with Scarcity and Growth
Museums are addicted to institutional growth but precarity for their people.