Every European public venue rendered the world to visitors as a pictured object

Evidence

This reality-effect, let me provisionally suggest, was a world more and more rendered up to the individual according to the way in which, and to the extent to which, it could be set up before him or her as an exhibit. Non-Europeans encountered in Europe what one might call, echoing a phrase from Heidegger, the age of the world exhibition, or rather, the age of the world-as-exhibition. World exhibition here refers not to an exhibition of the world but to the world conceived and grasped as though it were an exhibition. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 81 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Non-European visitors experienced all of Europe as staged for an observing subject — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 80; Modern Europe grasped the world itself as though it were an exhibition; Modern Europe ordered the world so it could be apprehended as an exhibit — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 81 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern Europe ordered the world so it could be apprehended as an exhibit #corroborates (0.92) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 81