Back inside the Mercedes-Benz World museum, there
are interactive and static display exhibitions surrounding
several floors of a multi-story atrium. Slick roadsters and
practical wagons, however noteworthy, take second
place to one dramatic display.
On an upper floor in its own gallery, a Mercedes-Benz
racing car has been systematically disassembled, its
components individually and meticulously suspended
in air, forming one large, extraordinary Deconstruction.
The display is worthy of great sculpture, not to mention
a battalion of esoteric French literary critics, perhaps the
late great Roland Barthes (he wrote about manufactured
objects as symbols and forms of social discourse). One
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