[art] Can Speak Its Own

The Soul Contains Few Secrets And Longings Which Cannot Be Sensibly Discussed, Analyzed, And Polled. Solitude, The Very Condition Which Sustained The Individual Against And Beyond His Society, Has Become Technically Impossible. Logical And Linguistic Analysis Demonstrate That The Old Metaphysical Problems Are Illusory Problems; The Quest For The "meaning" Of Things Can Be Reformulated As The Quest For The Meaning Of Words, And The Established Universe Of Discourse And Behavior Can Provide Perfectly Adequate Criteria For The Answer.

Art Breaks Open A Dimension Inaccessible To Other Experience, A Dimension In Which Human Beings, Nature, And Things No Longer Stand Under The Law Of The Established Reality Principle...the Encounter With The Truth Of Art Happens In The Estranging Language And Images Which Make Perceptible, Visible, And Audible That Which Is No Longer, Or Not Yet, Perceived, Said, And Heard In Everyday Life.

The Society Which Projects And Undertakes The Technological Transformation Of Nature Alters The Base Of Domination By Gradually Replacing Personal Dependence (of The Slave On The Master, The Serf On The Lord Of The Manor, The Lord On The Donor Of The Fief, Etc.) With Dependence On The "objective Order Of Things" (on Economic Laws, The Market Etc.).

Ideas, Aspirations, And Objectives That, By Their Content, Transcend The Established Universe Of Discourse And Action Are Either Repelled Or Reduced To Terms Of This Universe.

The Capabilities (intellectual And Material) Of Contemporary Society Are Immeasurably Greater Than Ever Before - Which Means That The Scope Of Society's Domination Over The Individual Is Immeasurably Greater Than Ever Before. Our Society Distinguishes Itself By Conquering The Centrifugal Social Forces With Technology Rather Than Terror, On The Dual Basis Of An Overwhelming Efficiency And An Increasing Standard Of Living.