"Every great work of art, besides its manifest essence, is also carried towards a latency of its coming side, that is: towards the contents of a future which had not yet appeared in its time, in fact ultimately towards the contents of an as yet unknown final state."

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Ernst Bloch- The Principle of Hope (via 3roads)

Motifs of utopia/signs from the future, how to reconcile these newfound utopian presentiments with the general thesis that art must be decapitated?