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​We must expand our circle of empathy and develop a deeper sense of trust – without which there can be no shared reality. Art carries off smoke signals of the union between self and nature on which that reality is built. If the world’s a house, art is the force that keeps it from collapsing on itself.

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Inclusion as Means of Exclusion

What is the purpose of the artist, one might ask? The Coen brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis points out that art isn’t everywhere, and everyone is not an artist. On the contrary, it says, the artist is a singularity, a creature fated to hobble across the world alone, misunderstood, surrounded by people who don’t get it or try to exploit him and by impostors who pretend to be his peers (and who often make it in his stead). The artist is an exception to the rule, to the spectral-structural Umwelt, the one who can tell that there is a rule, and that the rule is wrong. Had it been right, his sheer presence wouldn’t be needed. He'd be living inside art. 
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) directed by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen