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Emptiness – (ii) and the feud with Others

Art ...becomes a rite of circumnavigating emptiness, of slow, cautious, and deliberate capitulation. It is [Mikhail] Kutozov's, not Napoleon's tactics of encountering emptiness: instead of attacking it with militant cultural projects, one retreats, ceding ...where emptiness least expects to find a place - at the heart of the artist's creation. In order to prevent emptiness from swallowing up this creation, depriving it of meaning from the outside, it is made to curl up inside it, like a quiet, well-fed, docile wild animal in a cage (Mikhail Epstein, Alexander Genis, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Russian Postmodernism, 1999, p 326).