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“Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having an expressive function, it is opposed to drama, which even in its most refined forms still bears a social message and can only be 'put over' on the basis of an immediate and profound affinity with the values and expectations of its audience. The theatre divides its public and divides itself. The Parisian opposition between right-bank and left-bank theatr, bourgeois theatre and avant-garde theatre, is inextricably aesthetic and political.”

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“El sociólogo sólo puede darse alguna oportunidad de escapar a las condiciones sociales de las que es, como todo el mundo, producto, a condición de volver contra sí mismo las armas que su ciencia produce; a condición de armarse con el conocimiento de las determinaciones sociales que pueden pesar sobre él y, en particular, con el análisis científico de todos los constreñimientos y limitaciones ligados a una posición y una trayectoria determinadas en un campo, para intentar neutralizar los efectos de esas determinaciones.”

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“I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.”

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“You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.”

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