Between Totalitarianism and Chaos: The Problem of Control and Art in Modern Culture

Francisca Foortai

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Between Totalitarianism and Chaos: The Problem of Control and Art in Modern Culture

Francisca Foortai

Published in American Journal of Art and Design (Volume 7, Issue 3)

Received: 8 February 2022 Accepted: 21 September 2022 Published: 28 September 2022

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Control is one of the fundamental phenomena of the world civilizational process. The semantics of this term, which goes back to the roots of the Romance language (controlle), means a list or scroll with written elements. It follows from this that control as a means of managing society in any form (from Egyptian temple farms to modern subcultures) appears with the advent of writing. It is noteworthy that dreams of an ideal structure of society in antiquity or the Middle Ages were associated with a large degree of control on the verge of a totalitarian society – for example, in Plato's dialogue “About the state” or in Thomas More's book “About the best state on the island of Utopia”. Consequently, in the history of civilizations, the limit of control has determined by its excess in society – this is the phenomenon of totalitarianism, when almost all manifestations of human existence are controlled. On the other hand, it is impossible not to see that the entire human history is a series of different wars – from intertribal to world wars. War in the civilizational aspect is the apotheosis of chaos, the archaization of society as an integral organism. And this is another border of control, where its presence is minimal, and where control appears as a benefit and a security condition. In different historical epochs, control could take various forms, especially interesting are the methods of control in the epochs before the invention of the printing press. Art has always reflected the development of control in society. Especially interesting are the images of control in modern cinema, including TV series and music videos, the audience of which currently significantly exceeds the number of viewers of the “big cinema”.

Published in	American Journal of Art and Design (Volume 7, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajad.20220703.12
Page(s)	83-89
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Control, Chaos, Mass Culture, Russian Cinema, Blackout, Mike Shinoda, Clip “Fine”

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Francisca Foortai

Faculty of Philosophy, Culturology and Art, Leningrad State University Named After A. S. Pushkin, St-Petersburg, Russia

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