The catastrophes of history matter much less if they are somehow compensated for in art and art itself gets reduced to a kind of superior patching function, ...

The catastrophes of history matter much less if they are somehow compensated for in art and art itself gets reduced to a kind of superior patching function, is enslaved to those very materials to which it presumably imparts value.

Leo Bersani in The Culture of Redemption (1990)
Submitted by Simona Enache
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