## Sergei M. Eisenstein (2017). *On Disney*. London: Seagull Books. Author(s): [[Authors/Sergei M. Eisenstein]] Zotero Link: [On Disney](zotero://select/items/@eisenstein_disney_2017) Index: ### Related ### Summary: ### Notes: ![[IMG_8179.heic]] ![[p32.jpg|400]] > What is strange is not the fact that it exists. > What is strange is that it attracts. > And you cannot help but arrive at the conclusion that a single, common prerequisite of attractiveness shows through in all these examples: a rejection of once-and -forever allotted form, freedom from ossification, the ability to assume dynamically any from. > An ability that I would call 'plasmaticness', for here we have a being represented in drawing, a being of a definite form, a being which has attained a definite appearance, and which behaves like the primal protoplasm, not yet possessing a stable form, but capable of assuming any form and which, skipping along the rungs of the evolutionary ladder, attaches itself to any an all forms of animal existence. (32) > This is fictitious freedom. For an instant. A momentary, imaginary, comical liberation from the time-lock mechanism of American life. A five-minute 'break' for the psyche, but during which the viewer himself remains chained to the winch of the machine. (35-6)