If one realizes that everything we call culture consists in the suppression of nature and any uncontrolled traces of nature, then what this culture finds most unbearable are those places where it is not quite able to control natural manifestations, where they intrude persistently into its own domain … It might be said that culture banishes stench because it itself stinks - which Brecht once formulated in the truly magnificent and inspired statement that humanity up to now had built itself an immense palace of dogshit. I believe that culture's squalid and guilty suppression of nature - a suppression that is itself a wrongly and blindly natural tendency of human beings - is the reason why people refuse to admit that dark sphere.

Modern art is virtually an identification with the aggressor, a mimesis of reification. On the other hand, because this mimesis occurs within a separate artistic sphere, artworks can heal the wound with the poisonous spear that inflicted it.