Destroy all the symbolic attributes accumulated by the linguistic signs, purify the signs to the point of annihilation, articulate their interrelationships on the basis of a complete freedom of relations: these are all operations depending directly on the fundamental law of systematic infraction of the rules, the law on which the avant-garde theory was structured.
It is in any case a fact that the entire modern movement postulates an internal criticism of its own process. And it is also well known that the assumption of the task of criticism on the part of art has always corresponded to an annulment of criticism itself.
And it is well known from Baudelaire and Rimbaud that for modern art internal disputation is a means of survival.
— Manfredo Tafuri, Architecture and Utopia, 154, 158, 163
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