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“... of how activism aimed at taking on the state and changing the law was deflected into aestheticized gestures of interpersonal atonement, all under the hegemony of the liberal elite's clueless guilty conscience.”
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“This divergence meant that the spectacle of wealth took up ever more mental and physical space, increasing the popular sense of being both dependent on its whims and oppressed by them.”
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“art reminds the ultrarich of their unique centeredness and humanity in the decentered and inhumane world that they have secured for themselves.”
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“One of the operations of power is to deflect the critique of capitalism onto the terrain of a more limited cultural critique.”
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“There has been an intimate connection between a sense of cultural achievement and superiority and the practice of domination.”
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