museify

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mjuːˈziː.ɪ.faɪ/
• Rhymes: -iːɪfaɪ

Verb

museify (third-person singular simple present museifies, present participle museifying, simple past and past participle museified)

1. Alternative form of museumify
   • 2017, Richard G. Smith, David B. Clarke, editors, Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Culture: Uncollected Interviews, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN:

     There was an exhibit, the title was ‘Everything that I stole from you’, and the artist was exhibiting stolen objects, and he stated where they were stolen, from whom, etc.; it was an exhibit of theft. So obviously it was museified. It was a ready-made. Rather than a bottle-rack, it was theft that was on display, as social action. And so something that was alive was museified . . . Today’s museum has no more boundaries, and we know that there are entire communities that have been anthropologically museified, as patrimony.

   • 2017, Evi Zemanek, “Mocking the Anthropocene: Caricatures of Man-Made Landscapes in German Satirical Magazines from the Fin de Siècle”, in Sabine Wilke, Japhet Johnstone, editors, Readings in the Anthropocene: The Environmental Humanities, German Studies, and Beyond (New Directions in German Studies), Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 140:

     And third, it indicates humans’ increasing alienation from nature by criticizing their attempts to museify it.

   • 2019, Victoria Grace Walden, Cinematic Intermedialities and Contemporary Holocaust Memory, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 102:

     Hersonski’s film resists museifying the film as historical object and therefore avoids assuming any truth value about the past from its content.