“The aesthetic for Rancière therefore signals an ability to think contradiction: the productive contradiction of art's relationship to social change, which is characterized by the paradox of belief in art's autonomy and in it being inextricably bound to the promise of a better world to come. --In short, the aesthetic doesn't need to be sacrificed at the altar of social change, because it always already contains this ameliorative promise.“ Claire Bishop in Artificial Hells Ameliorative definition: verb [with object] formal make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better: the reform did much to ameliorate living standards. Freaking love this