“My crazy obsession” videos on youtube, are all pretty extreme, I couldn’t stop looking though them.
The one that made me really stop and watch in full was “Living Doll” of which was a short video showing a young girl Brenna who was in a beauty pageant, on stage Brenna was shown as a living doll dressed up in a massive pink dress, fake tanned, make up fresh and hair curled. Brenna is only about 4 years old, but it seems its a high priority that she wins the crown at the pageant.
“It remains the case,nevertheless, that this absurd ticking off the desirable is fundamentally inhuman. Reduced to a set of anatomical parts, the woman becomes a pure object.”
This quote links perfectly to Brenna’s mother who has made Brenna into this Living Doll character. She has made a normal and sweet little girl believe she isnt a real human, Brenna believes she is a doll because of her mums making. She has reduced Brenna into a inhuman being, that she ins’t real or reality anymore.
“What makes a collection transcend mere accumulation is not only the fact of its being culturally complex, but the fact of its incompleteness, the fact that it lacks something”
This particular quote suggests that Brenna herself or Brenna’s mother is creating this obsession, to complete a particular strand of their lives. For example Brenna’s mother could be creating this whole lifestyle for her daughter to complete her unresolved childhood.
This particular obsession and collection of the pageant memorabilia is a fairly “normal” and regular thing to do but I find it still abit shocking to think that Brenna is only a small 4 year old who doesn’t know anything else bar this Living Doll lifestyle her mother has constructed for her.
Both quotes are taken from Baudrillard’s “The System of Collecting”. Pages 20 and 23.
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