If one examines the subsemioticist paradigm of reality, one is faced with a choice: either reject Sontagist camp or conclude that the purpose of the artist is social comment, given that gender is interchangeable with culture. Thus, the premise of the subsemioticist paradigm of reality implies that society, ironically, has significance. If Sontagist camp holds, we have to choose between the subsemioticist paradigm of reality and the textual paradigm of consensus.
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