New Curatorial Organisations and the Digitalization of Museum Collections Vikings of the Internet Age

Curatorial agency is situated in the introduction via an elaboration

of the intersection between the mission of public museums to care for

collections and their increased reliance on digital capitalism's social, technical

and material infrastructures for the circulation of digitisations, narratives

and new research findings. We explain how this book approaches

curatorial agency in four individually authored chapters, each taking its

own approach to museum knowledge and curatorial agency in regard to

the junction of humanistic interpretations and new materialist and posthuman

frameworks. Moreover, we explain how each chapter acts as a case

study that tracks objects from the Swedish History Museum's Viking Age

collection to distinct technological spheres: Swedish discussion forums,

YouTube, Pinterest and the vast infrastructures and destructive processes

of Technospheric curation.