Psychogeographic Autoeroticism II

In the book 'The System of Objects' Jean Baudrillard comments that 'The erotic significance of the object (a car) here plays the same role as the image (real or mental) in masturbation' (1).

In the book 'Imagined Communities' Benedict Anderson described the nation as an 'imagined community (2)', a socially constructed imagination.
Nationalism and masturbation seem to have similar characteristics as they both involve the subject exciting themselves over an image or imagination. In this piece the bottle is obviously phallic but overall it attempts to capture the similarity between nationalism and masturbation without being too overt.
The four bottles stand for the four nations of the UK, the fallen bottle representing England which, mesmerised by nationalism and xenophobia, in 2019 elected another Tory government despite 10 years of top down class war known, euphemistically as austerity. The coke bottles can also be taken to represent the historical and contemporary influence of USA in British culture and economics.

  

(1) Baudrillard, J. (1996) 'The System of Objects', Verso, London and Brooklyn. p.73 
(2) Anderson, B. (1991) 'Imagined Communities; Reflections on The Origins and Spread of Nationalism' Verso, London and New York.