The Spirit of Matter

A range of meaningful objectsexhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computersdemonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their life. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of mind over matter. It traces this mindset back to Protestant Christian influences that were secularized in the course of modern and colonial history.