Art is a way to become reabsorbed in a society, after having failed to become absorbed, or integrated into a social niche. It is an indirect means to have the pain of being left outside recognized, and thus in a sense, become welcomed back into the social circuit.
But there does come a time when reabsorption becomes more difficult, especially when the content of one's art or movement is fatally unacceptable to mainstream discourse. Perhaps there is no longer living tissue to become integrated in.
But then artists and movements competing for reabsorption clash against each other, demanding each others' recognition in vain, or otherwise reabsorption is attempted through contrived means, appealing to acceptable discourse but whose artificiality induces despair.
Perhaps it takes the establishment of a new body. This language carries the danger of encouraging totalitarian impulses. What type of body is to be established? Or what about a multiplicity of bodies? Who is to do the establishing?
There is a lot of compression here. I'll try to elaborate in subsequent posts.
