Art’s alienation from society is itself a social product, corrigible only by changing society.

Evidence

Artistic alienation succumbs, together with other modes of negation, to the process of technological rationality. The change reveals its depth and the degree of its irreversibility if it is seen as a result of technical progress. The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization and, in their light, the pre-technological images are losing their power. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 304 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Technical progress makes art’s alienation from society irreversible. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 304; A new culture develops only with changing social relations and state formation.; Philosophy and art can dissolve only jointly in a liberated society

Broader Connections

• Technical progress makes art’s alienation from society irreversible. #contradicts (0.95) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 304
• A new culture develops only with changing social relations and state formation. #corroborates (0.85)
• Philosophy and art can dissolve only jointly in a liberated society #corroborates (0.80)