ABSTRACT
The rites and rituals of the archival procedures and architectural organisation of the museum produce texts, documents, objects, experiences that are identified, classified, catalogued, explained and interpreted in regimes of knowledge, power and truth. The volume Cultural Memory, Migrating Modernity's and Museum Practices produced by the MeLa research group in Naples proposed a preliminary critical survey of such historical and cultural procedures. The community of time that is, the seemingly shared time of the narration of the European nation is here interrupted when other times and constellations of belonging enter the museum. The museum, as a physical and metaphysical site of memory, ultimately poses the interrogation of the very nature of the discursive organisation of knowledge. The humanist paradigm can be refused by responding to other measures drawn from the climate, the soil, the chemistry of life, that refuse to be readily indexed and mastered.
