"The Golden Dragon" plays loosely with ideas about the alienation endemic in contemporary culture.
The segment played up the idea of the shared sense of alienation between white Clinton supporters and black people.
The silent, soulful connection between the two men, which opens the show with such promise, is rarely revisited; instead there is a sense of stoic drama, especially from Jonah, who takes the idea of alienation so seriously that we can read it on his face.
Faced with the suggestion that his figures expressed the alienation of modern urban man, he would say that he introduced the human figure into his work only to give an idea of the scale of the buildings.
The bridge between Marx's early analysis of alienation and his later social theory is the idea that the alienated individual is 'a plaything of alien forces', albeit alien forces which are themselves a product of human action.
No humans were harmed in the making of Chameleon, however this is an on-screen artwork that explores ideas of distortion and alienation through the manipulation of the familiar-feeling figure. .
Ideas of alienation, anomie, identity crisis, and estrangement from norms are rife among the social sciences, particularly, of course, those most directly concerned with the nature of the social bond, such as sociology, social psychology, and political science.
Also present is the idea of an artist's alienation, sharply echoed in a darting, frantic solo by Charles Askegard, as the Schumann figure.
Instead, her subjects evoke ideas of alienation and loneliness, while also reflecting the inherent power of isolation as a special kind of conduit for transmitting creative energy.
Eastern Germans hope the country will henceforth open itself up to ideas that self-absorbed Bonn ignores, such as the alienation of the easterners.
