Museum Theory

In the context of theory on the museum, the chapter has been concerned with the complexity of affecting encounters in generating new ways of imagining interactions between human and nonhuman worlds. The space of new becomings will always benefit from a muting of subjectivity, a possibility affected through encounters with objects that do not operate within human notions of linear history and time. Prepersonal, precognitive affective intelligence is situated outside historical, linear time and is not limited to a common sense past, present, and future. Unfamiliar spaces and times have always been part and parcel of wondrous encounters with museum objects. Notwithstanding the rigor of critical analysis and the large and important body of work in museum studies since the advent of the new museology, the fictional notion of anarchical artifacts that cause havoc in the commonsense, rational museum excites us to the possibilities of our own transformation. After all, who wants a tree in their head?

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Janice Baker is Lecturer in the School of Media, Culture, and Creative Arts at Curtin University, Australia. Her current research explores encounters with material culture and difference through fictional representations of museum artifacts as cinematic images.

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