As you say, art is much like the law. Ethics and aesthetics. Is fear, then, at the breakdown of an aesthetic order so strange? The program of modern art seems t

As you say, art is much like the law. Ethics and aesthetics. Is fear, then, at the breakdown of an aesthetic order so strange? The program of modern art seems to be to carry out in the aesthetic realm what in the moral realm is the equivalent of a radical libertinism, the transgression of every boundary, the dispersion of every universal bond. "Everything is permitted": was that not the great fear? The law too is only what we say the law is and those random drips of paint in which the viewer can see nothing connected to their notion of "beauty", can see something perhaps totally alien to their notion of "beauty", might put the flame a bit too close to that thin paper through which you can catch the glimpse of an abyss.