Frank Kogan

My other sense is that Benjamin's expectations of art on all sides of the political spectrum are way too high -- that is, there's a dichotomy between art leading to social change and art working at an almost subconscious level, basically infecting its admirers, at least semi-unawares, with its politics. Which doesn't tell me a whole lot about how people actually view art or how it actually works in their lives. (This is a general beef I tend to have with the majority of theory that addresses the "nature of the medium" type questions and again I'm not sure if it's appropriate here.)