This contribution establishes a dialogue with the essay of Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand and her proposal of "mindful reading." The author adds some further comments concerning the notion of mindfulness, getting back to the Buddhist origin of the term. She also criticises Mroczkowska-Brand's readiness to speak of postcolonial studies Anno Domini 2020. Quite to the contrary, the author points at the exhaustion of typically postcolonial paradigms in such a rapidly changing world as ours. The persistence of postcolonial mentalities is often treated as a factor of stagnation, just like the eternal return to the Sykes-Picot agreement, shown as quite unfortunate in Fouad Laroui's novel, Ce vain combat que tu livres au monde. Other examples brought forth as the exemplification of "post-postcolonial" changes in the contemporary world are two novels of Tsitsi Dangarembga, the writings of the Malay intellectual Farish Noor, the city chronicles of Kalaf Epalanga, as well as some texts from Guinea-Bissau (Andrea Fernandes, Tony Tcheka).
This article attempts a comparative view of selected museums (in Coimbra, Glasgow, and Kuala Lumpur) in connection with the colonial, post-colonial, and trans-colonial history of two former empires, the British and Portuguese, as well as an area they colonized, Malaysia. The museum as a model of the world reflects successive cultural projects: from building awareness of the empire; through post-colonial changes; to the phase described as trans-colonial, in which the former colony begins to create its own frames of reference in the world and free itself entirely from symbolic dependence on the former colonizer. At each of these stages, exhibition institutions play an important role as a means of recreating and transferring ideas connected with identity, community, and place in the world.
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