ABSTRACT
In the periphery, modernism in the arts has always had some kind of estrangement from the medium and a certain critical angle. The artist can be trapped by the imperative of the democratization of culture and opt to facilitate the understanding of his work, as in the demands of agitprop, or he may think that it is not enough to democratize culture and that it is also important for the content of works of art to be accompanied by advanced forms. To the extent that, in the 1980s, the modern social division of commodity-producing labor began to collapse, the violence has acquired the air of a precursor of the manner in which Western society will dissolve catastrophically over the coming years throughout the world. In it lies, as if it were a cipher, the wreckage of a future that will not come, in which wander masses of human beings increasingly superfluous for the production of goods.
