Sunday, August 21, 2011

On the involvement sensation of Heatsick

"An alienation of the motor car takes place if after driving a modern car for a long while we drove a old model T Ford. Suddenly we hear explosions once more; the motor works on the principle of explosion. We start feeling amazed that such a vehicle, indeed any vehicle not drawn by animal pwer, can move.; in short, we understand cars, by looking at them as something strange, new, as a triumph of engineering and to that extent something unnatural. Nature, with certainly embraces the motor car, is suddenly imbued with an element of unnaturalness, and form now on this is an indelible part of the concept of nature."

Brecht "Short Description of a New Technique of Acting".



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