I Read a Book a Week in 2025 (and Yes, It Almost Killed Me)
Sure, reading books is harder nowadays … but so is the world.
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.
Links of the Week: June 21, 2024: Trust Busting or Trust Building?
Museums can't preach trust in society without enacting it internally.
Limits and Rifts: A Review of Post Growth and Marx in the Anthropocene
We obsess about growth but do we think enough about limits?
The View from Up There: a Review of The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues by András Szántó
A 2020 leader-focused book on the future of museums is more than meets the eye.
Museum Luddites, Revisited: A Review of Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
A new book connect the Luddite uprising of the 1810s to current tech-directed work.
The Top Museum Human Posts of 2023
Museum Human readers in 2023 enjoyed interviews almost as much as reading about quiet quitting.