What's in a Name and the Why For of the Andersen Design Museum Of American Designer Craftsmen
Placing the contemporary in the long view of history
I published Luddites, Guilds, and Societies of Correspondence on Medium where I was criticized for including “Andersen Design” in the name of the conceptual museum that was mentioned in the story. Naming a museum after Andersen Design was alleged to be egotistic and in evidence was that I was not talking about other artisans, the infamous “whataboutism” response wherein one makes a post about something and the response is “why are you talking about this instead of that?”
If using Andersen Design in the name of a museum makes the museum solely about Andersen Design then naming the story Luddites, Guilds, and Societies of Correspondence should make it only about Luddites, Guilds, and Societies of Correspondence so why was my critic treating the story as if it is about the museum unless he is recognizing, in a roundabout way that the museum is about Luddites, Guilds, Societies of Correspondence and Andersen Design?
My Dad was a Luddite and didn’t know it. It wasn’t …
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