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Are you lost in the world like me?
Breaking down a piece of artwork is always a challenging task for someone with a scientifically-troubled mind like mine… But today I want to take things a bit further, so forgive me in advance for the unorthodox behaviour. What I’m trying to pull out, is a complex analysis dealing with an engaging visual component and a sophisticated lyric for us humans to wake up. As a Latin folk myself, I find Mr Cutts & Mr Moby’s aesthetic approach to be somewhat quiet for our loud and anaesthetised culture to catch up with. Unfortunately, beautiful art is not enough aesthetic stimuli for many of us to wake up…
Today, I try to see this -derived by a severe symptom- eloquent shout, through the eyes of Norbert Elias; the last classic thinker of the social theory tradition I humbly represent. The alienating behaviours portrayed in this effective animation, are easier to read from the shoulders of Norbert Elias; the last of the great classic sociologists. A scientist who was capable of clearly studying theoretical concepts through social conditions with a sufficiently neutral gaze. His capability of squeezing out the social symptoms from objects like books, paintings and illustrations, reminded me of a famous group of social researchers working on alienation and cultural consumption as well, The Frankfurt School. And no surprise, Elias was indeed somewhat related to these thinkers as well.
