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"The reason why excrements are elevated into a work of art, used to fill the Void of the Thing, is not simply to demonstrate that 'anything goes,' that the object is ultimately irrelevent, since ANY object can be elevated into and occupy the Place of the Thing; this recourse to excrement, rather, bears witness to a desperate strategy to ascertain that the Sacred Place is still there."

--Slavoj Zizek, The Fragile Absolute