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Cabinet of Wonders: Blogs as Wunderkammern

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- the ways in which blogs emulate the same kind of exploration/bringing back oddities/presentation as the old Wunderkammern
- systems of personal taxonomies defining the order of the collection
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- - blossoming culture of exploration and idea-making.
  - the vision of a Wunderkammer has become such a conceptual one
  - blogging being a virtual medium, it follows that it should be a conceptual home-base of sorts
  - apparently whimsical taxonomies which depended on the personal world-view of the collector
  - this image of the original Wunderkammer has become a metaphor for authenticness and a sense of wonder
  - Blogging, more than any cultural technology, allows for an approach to wonder in an intimate and often apparently whimsical environment:
  - specific to his or her own vision: a personal taxonomy.
  - as blogs work with one another, greater Wunderkammern are created
  - re-emergence of personal taxonomies in a different era of exploration and the connection of ideas
Curiosity Cabinet

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Wunderkammern

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Cabinet of curiosities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Cabinet of Wonders: Wunderkammern vs. Cabinets of Curiosity

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- Wunderkammern, which were early expressions of wonder and awe at the world and what it could produce
- curiosity cabinets, which came later and were really about early scientific efforts to master and control nature by creating strict taxonomies
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- - with the paradigm shift from the theologically-driven 1500s to the analytically-driven 1700s, Wunderkammern underwent a demotion
  - mark the onset of a desire to grasp and control the mystery which made of nature such an enthralling realm.
  - it was the seeds of science today, with its emphasis on why and how, its need to separate things into groups, segments, divisions.
  - people began to discover that they could actually figure things out by observation and deduction.
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Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) exhibits ” Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities” « Raw art Weblog

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- Why do people collect?
- I mean that the modern museum, whether it is a collection of art or oddments, derives partly from the old Kunst- und Wunderkammern, or art- and wonder-cabinets, and it retains its original aspirations to wonderment.
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- - Wonderment came to be perceived as a kind of middle state between ignorance and knowledge, and wonder cabinets were theaters of the marvelous, museums of accumulated curiosities, proving God's ingenuity.
  - one of the first museums in the United States belonged to the Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale.
  - Partly it was a desire for a more methodical approach to collected objects that ushered in a new age of museums two centuries ago. Museums began to specialize. The balance tipped from delight toward instruction. The new museums set out to categorize things, to create order out of the world, or at least to imply that there is an order. Descartes said that too much wonder can ''pervert the use of reason.'' This was the age of Descartes.
  - But the spirit of the wonder cabinets never altogether died.
  - to make us see, with heightened curiosity, what is around us.
  - blur the distinction between science and art by dwelling in the marvelous.
  - many collections suggest a kind of obsession on the part of the collector that exceeds practicality.
Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man

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- sustained attention is not what Web logs are about anyway. At their most interesting they embody something that exceeds attention, and transforms it: They are constructed from and pay implicit tribute to a peculiarly contemporary sort of wonder.
- A Web log really, then, is a Wunderkammer.
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- - a random collection of strange, compelling objects, typically compiled and owned by a learned, well-off gentleman.
  - civilization’s dazed and wondering attempts to assimilate the glut of physical data that science and exploration were then unleashing.
    
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  - so it may be a while before the chaos of the Web submits to any very tidy scheme of organization
    
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  - We remain in a kind of stupor before the Web’s abundance, and we seem likely to stay in it indefinitely. We might as well learn how to live there.
  - Wonder isn’t easily replaced once mastery disperses it
  - the Web ultimately overwhelms all attempts to order it
  - the delicate thread of a personal point of view is often as not your most reliable guide through the chaos
  - the claim that Web logs belong to literature. Deriving full-bodied, believable personalities from the quotidian flow of consciousness is, after all, one of literature’s specialties
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Emma Freeman's List: Curiosity Cabinets

Cabinet of Wonders: Blogs as Wunderkammern

Curiosity Cabinet

Wunderkammern

Curiosity Cabinets

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Cabinet of curiosities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Morbid Anatomy

The Curiosity Cabinet

Cabinet of Wonders: Wunderkammern vs. Cabinets of Curiosity

Wunderkammer

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