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This anarcho-leftist rock star didn't manage to break the super-though wall of aesthetics. There's still an aesthetics in his art that can and is being recuperated, and reappropriated by the Soft Power. The day someone or some people succeed on such a wide scale with an anti-aesthetic or non-aesthetic approach to agit-prop, I'll call that "revolutionary". But isn't what people like the Dadaists and Lettrists have done already?

Reaching out to the mainstream in itself is a problem. When the liberal side of the mainstream media start despising our "art", with something that can hardly be recuperated or even understood, we will be bringing something radically new. But Banksy is all too comfy and legible for liberal left sensibilities.