a second irony about Greenberg

I’ve mentioned the first: that one of the marks against him is divorcing art from its social context, even though he was deeply formed by Marxism.

The second is that he’s generally viewed as an ultra-modernist, yet his harsh critique of “millenialist” critics who view every new art style as utterly revolutionary and radically distinct from the preceding tradition makes him sound at times like he wrote Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern.