Sentient Relics explores museums through cinema and challenges the dominant focus of museum theory as an inclusion exclusion debate. The author responds to the Enlightenment, rational museum of reason contrasting this with the museum of affect and reveals these two museums operating alongside one another in a productive paradox. In structuralist-orientated museum theory the affective realm is often subsumed within the imperatives of Marxist theory and practice, identity politics, semiology and psychoanalysis. Sentient Relics, while valuing the insights of ideologically...