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The work that art can do in the Global City is not to provide a trade-able commodity for the machinations of capital but become a means of revitalising an “operative language” for communication (as Alphonso Lingis' describes in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and the Invisible, 1968, l-liii). Only when the artifact can lend itself to the needs of each recipient will a global culture devise a means of communion of Others that avoids capturing and delivering the individual to the cages of the senders' communicational intention.