"The aesthetic domain and the work of art seem to offer a plane on which a certain equilibrium can be achieved in the face of a modernized reality which is always already in a state of disruptive disequilibrium. Societies organized economically and socially by markets, the money-form, the commodity fetish, and so on, cannot, by definition, achieve stability or equilibrium, and moreover, are never meant to achieve such a thing. In these conditions of permanent upheaval, there are only temporary moments of arrested development. Art is such a moment in market societies."
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