Revolutions in aesthetic sensibility may be the only way in which radical change can be brought about in the future… It may be only from aesthetic changes of one sort or another that one can expect a radical shift in the people’s consciousness.
“Anyone who has ever tried to recount a dream to someone else is in a position to measure the immense gap, the qualitative incommensurability, between the vivid memory of the dream and the dull, impoverished words which are all we can find to convey it: yet this incommensurability, between the particular and the universal, between the vecu and language itself, is one in which we dwell all our lives, and it is from it that all works of literature and culture necessarily emerge.”
Fredric Jameson | “Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan”