I feel as though I’m approaching another wave of thinking. The next set of things I don’t understand are rising to the surface. Ahh, here we go. Tough but rewarding.

For Luhmann, the more art tries to immerse itself in the general run of products and discourse in society, the more it ends up reinforcing its autonomy:

No ordinary object insists on being taken for an ordinary thing, but a work that does so betrays itself by this very effort.  The function of art in such a case is to reproduce the difference of art.  But the mere fact that art seeks to cancel this difference and fails in the effort to do so perhaps says more about art than could any excuse or critique.

I’ve always wanted to live in Brussels.

Mini Maison