A Programme of Absolute Disorder

'A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition'

-- Publishers Weekly

'An impressive critique of the universal museum as complicit in the ongoing damages inflicted by colonial power structures. Françoise Vergès gives us the tools to harness our imagination in order to build new art institutions for a different future.'

-- Isaac Julien, filmmaker and installation artist

'A thought-provoking demonstration that should fascinate anyone interested in social justice, post-colonialism and the arts'

-- Euronews

'Vergès offers, in the wake of Frantz Fanon, a powerful reflection … The Western museum is a tool of domination which must be deconstructed in a post-racist and post-capitalist world. Powerful and so relevant'

-- Diacritik

'The post-museum era has come. Museums without objects, museums of the present, living museums, museums of oral speech, museums of the great disorders of the world... There is no shortage of ideas for those who still know how to dream'

-- Hors-Serie

'Enacting the decolonial task to imagine and practice a post museum, Vergès also enacts the gargantuan task of a post historical, post epistemic archive. This obliges the absolute disorder of the structures of thought and feeling that sustain the impossibility of history and knowledge unoccupied by the modern archive. Showing it should be done, Vergès offers creative joyful relentlessness towards decolonial worlds.'

-- Marisol de la Cadena, Professor of Anthropology, Science & Technology Studies,University of California, Davis

'A brilliant book on how to order the disorder of colonized spaces while finding new pathways to discuss what it means to question rage and embrace new narratives on the once invisible structures of museums. Françoise Vergès skillfully writes a manifesto of sorts that shifts the paradigm and re-imagines a world as if there was no West with a curious wit, fearless irony, and a clear sense of underpinning hope.'

-- Deborah Willis, artist, New York University

'One of the greatest thinkers of our time, surprises us again with a brilliant work on decolonising the museum. Françoise Vergès demonstrates how insidiously the museum contemplates a colonial order, and offers an intelligent, critical and vivid new approach. A Programme of Absolute Disorder is a masterpiece required reading'

-- Grada Kilomba, interdisciplinary artist and writer

'Proposes a root-and-branch decolonisation of the institution of the museum'

-- The Bookseller