@article{ART002712037},
author={Jimin Cha},
title={Memorial Museum and Consumer Society: Regarding “Implosion” in the “Most Diabolical” Space},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2021},
volume={14},
number={1},
pages={117-137},
doi={10.22901/trans.2021.14.1.117}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jimin Cha
TI - Memorial Museum and Consumer Society: Regarding “Implosion” in the “Most Diabolical” Space
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2021
VL - 14
IS - 1
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 117
EP - 137
SN - 2092-6081
AB - This research investigates memorial museums in the context of consumer society.
Unlike the existing studies, which focus mainly on the exhibition, this research differentiates itself from the current studies by inviting society to its examination. Based on Jean Baudrillard’s critical views on image and consumer society, this study tackles memorial museums in a new light largely in three aspects. First, this study inspects why the phenomenon of “indistinguishability” can be “most diabolical.” Second, this research examines how the image in memorial museum’s exhibition replaces the past with “artificial memory” by causing visitors to become “totally indifferent” to the message the museum is trying to convey. Third, based on Baudrillard’s theory on the consumer society, this research locates memorial museums in consumer society to explore how museums are consumed happily by visitors, who enter the museum from where consumption is prevalent. Thus, this research proposes a new perspective for understanding museums by connecting the museums to consumer society, which is an aspect that has been overlooked so far in the discussion of memorial museums. For the discussion, cases of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
and Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile will be introduced.
KW - Commemoration;Consumer Society Jean Baudrillard;Holocaust Memorial Museum;Memorial museum;Museum of Memory and Human Rights
DO - 10.22901/trans.2021.14.1.117
ER -
Jimin Cha. (2021). Memorial Museum and Consumer Society: Regarding “Implosion” in the “Most Diabolical” Space. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 14(1), 117-137.
Jimin Cha. 2021, "Memorial Museum and Consumer Society: Regarding “Implosion” in the “Most Diabolical” Space", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.14, no.1 pp.117-137. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2021.14.1.117
Jimin Cha "Memorial Museum and Consumer Society: Regarding “Implosion” in the “Most Diabolical” Space" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 14.1 pp.117-137 (2021) : 117.
Jimin Cha. Memorial Museum and Consumer Society: Regarding “Implosion” in the “Most Diabolical” Space. 2021; 14(1), 117-137. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2021.14.1.117
Jimin Cha. "Memorial Museum and Consumer Society: Regarding “Implosion” in the “Most Diabolical” Space" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 14, no.1 (2021) : 117-137.doi: 10.22901/trans.2021.14.1.117
Jimin Cha. Memorial Museum and Consumer Society: Regarding “Implosion” in the “Most Diabolical” Space. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 14(1), 117-137. doi: 10.22901/trans.2021.14.1.117
Jimin Cha. Memorial Museum and Consumer Society: Regarding “Implosion” in the “Most Diabolical” Space. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2021; 14(1) 117-137. doi: 10.22901/trans.2021.14.1.117
Jimin Cha. Memorial Museum and Consumer Society: Regarding “Implosion” in the “Most Diabolical” Space. 2021; 14(1), 117-137. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2021.14.1.117
Jimin Cha. "Memorial Museum and Consumer Society: Regarding “Implosion” in the “Most Diabolical” Space" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 14, no.1 (2021) : 117-137.doi: 10.22901/trans.2021.14.1.117
