Koshy said, 'If you want to look at alienation - read on existentialism, for philosophy on the other read Lacan, and keep it real.' (Keeping it real is possibly the toughest part)
Sowmya said, be clear about what you want from the questions you ask, do some free writing that might help. (so I did, and what I am doing, briefly, is exploring the notion of self and other using alien as a metaphor)
Films to watch: Jaguar by Jean Rouch, Lesson of Darkness and Wild Blue Yonder (watched) by Werner Herzog,
Visit ALF, (but I'm not sure how they can help)
Mrs. Dinaz Wadia () asked about the point of view I was speaking from, as me alienating others, or others alienating me/ others.
Found some related things of interest:
Books: The sense of sight- Berger, Cubism (Avant-Gardism and Modernity)- Neil Cox
"The idea of multiple and shifting viewpoints became a characteristic way of understanding cubist senses, and sometimes relied on a comparison with the new popular medium of cinema."
Artist Liu Bolin (Chinese)- Camouflage series (with regard to fitting in with our surroundings)
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Check out Lacan - the greatest sense of belonging is the sense of oneness like a foetus/baby experiences (probably) in the womb of the mother. The unity of belonging that is pure subjectivity. The word is cathexis, when one has imbibed the other (taken the other entirely in - which is the entire point of high and deep coitus) - the two are one symbolised by mother-womb-baby connection or the mystical Bridegroom-Bride relationship. It is after the child comes into the world that the entirely subjective world is shattered and the subjective "i" collides with the objective "i" which is also created by how others see you as an "object" or an "other" and how they do not fathom your subjective "i". So this dichotomy arises - you look into the mirror and you come from the subjective 'i" and see an objective "other" just as you look at others you want to belong to with your subjective "i" and yet you "other" them as objects.
So then there is "conflict" and how does belongingness happen when such a subject-object divide is there?
Lacan posits that we use language (signs pointing to things) to try to bridge the gap between the subjective "i" and the "other" and to come back to or return to unity and belongingness. So the word "mother" points in the direction of the oneness of the womb in an attempt to get back there but can one ever get back there again?
Hope this helps but I dont know how it does. :-)
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